[00:00.000] 作词 : Albert Hammond
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Mike Hazlewood
[00:10.289]My father is a doctor, he's a family man
[00:14.903]My mother works for charity whenever she can
[00:20.013]They're both good clean
[00:21.696]Americans who abide by the law
[00:24.911]And they both stick up for liberty and they both support the war
[00:29.699]My happyness was paid for when they laid their money down
[00:34.531]For summers in a summer camp and winters in the tow
[00:39.438]My future in the system was talked about and planned
[00:44.473]But I gave it up for music and the free electric band
[00:57.814]I went to school in hand-washed shirts with neatly ordered hair
[01:02.608]And the school was big and newly built and filled with light and air
[01:07.423]And the teacher taught us values that we had to learn to keep
[01:12.445]And he clipped the ear of many idle kid who went to sleep
[01:17.267]Then my father organized for me a college in the east
[01:22.131]But I went to
[01:23.637]California, the sunshine and the beach
[01:27.257]My parents and my lecturers could never understand
[01:31.973]Why I gave it up for music and the free electric band
[01:40.961]Well, they used to sit and speculate upon their son's career
[01:45.634]Alawyer or a doctor or a civil engineer
[01:50.328]Just give me bread and water, put a guitar in my hand'
[01:55.389]Cause all
[01:55.979]I need is music and the free electric band
[02:08.677]My father sent me money, and
[02:10.780]I spent it very fast
[02:13.583]On a girl
[02:14.616]I met in Berkeley in a social science class
[02:18.227]Yes, and we learnt about her body, but her mind we didn't know
[02:23.199]Until deep rooted attitudes and morals began to show
[02:27.944]She wanted to get married even though she never said
[02:32.771]And I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head
[02:37.739]She'd settle for suburbia and a little patch of land
[02:42.607]So I gave her up for music and the free electric band

作词 : Albert Hammond
作曲 : Mike Hazlewood
My father is a doctor, he's a family man
My mother works for charity whenever she can
They're both good clean
Americans who abide by the law
And they both stick up for liberty and they both support the war
My happyness was paid for when they laid their money down
For summers in a summer camp and winters in the tow
My future in the system was talked about and planned
But I gave it up for music and the free electric band
I went to school in hand-washed shirts with neatly ordered hair
And the school was big and newly built and filled with light and air
And the teacher taught us values that we had to learn to keep
And he clipped the ear of many idle kid who went to sleep
Then my father organized for me a college in the east
But I went to
California, the sunshine and the beach
My parents and my lecturers could never understand
Why I gave it up for music and the free electric band
Well, they used to sit and speculate upon their son's career
Alawyer or a doctor or a civil engineer
Just give me bread and water, put a guitar in my hand'
Cause all
I need is music and the free electric band
My father sent me money, and
I spent it very fast
On a girl
I met in Berkeley in a social science class
Yes, and we learnt about her body, but her mind we didn't know
Until deep rooted attitudes and morals began to show
She wanted to get married even though she never said
And I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head
She'd settle for suburbia and a little patch of land
So I gave her up for music and the free electric band