The Free Electric Band

C

G

C

G

C

G

My father is a doctor, he’s a family man

C

G

My mother works for charity when ever she can

C

G

They’re both good clean Americans who abide by the law

C

G

They both stick up for liberty and they both support the war.

C

F

G

C

My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down

C

F

G

C

For summers in a summercamp and winters in the town

C

F

C

G

My future in the system was talked about and planned

C

F

G

C

G

C

G

But I gave it up for music and the Free Electric Band.

C

G

I went to school in handwashed shirts with neatly oiled hair

C

G

And the school was big and newly built and filled with light and air

C

G

And the teacher taught us values that we had to learn to keep

C

G

And they clipped the ear of many idle kid who went to sleep.

C

F

G

C

‘Till my father organised for me a college in the east

C

F

G

C

But I went to California for the sunshine and the beach

C

F

C

G

My parents and my lecturers could never understand

C

F

G

C

G

Why I gave it up for music and the Free electric band.

F

C

G

C

Well they used to sit and speculated upon their son’s career

F

C

G

C

A lawyer or a doctor or a civil engineer

C

F

C

G

Just give me bread and water, put a guitar in my hand

C

F

G

C

G

‘Cos all I need is music and the Free Electric Band.

C

G

My father sent me money and I spent it pretty fast

C

G

On a girl I met in Berkley in a social science class

C

G

Yes, and we learned about her body but her mind we did not know

C

G

Until deep routed attitudes and morals began to show

C

F

G

C

She wanted to get married even though she never said

C

F

G

C

And I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head

C

F

C

G

She’d settle for suburbia and a little patch of land

C

F

G

C

G

So I gave her up for music and the Free Electric Band.

C

G

Oooh the Free Electric Band.

C

G