Our father is a doctor, he's a family man
My mother works for charity
And they're both good clean Americans
And they both stick up for liberty
and they both support the war
My happiness was paid for
when they laid their money down
For summers in a summer camp
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
And the school was big and newly built
and filled with light and air
And the teachers taught us values
that we had to learn to keep
And they'd clip the ear of any
idle kid who went to sleep
My father sent sent me money
On a girl I met in Berkeley
in a social science class
Yes, and we learned about her body
but her mind we didn't know
Until deep-rooted attitudes
She wanted to get married
even though she never said
And I knew her well enough by now
She'd settle for suburbia
and a little patch of land
So I gave her up for music
and the free electric band
Ooh, the free electric band
Da, ba, da, ba, da, da, dee, dee
with the free electric band
Da, ba, da, ba, da, da, dee, dee
with the free electric band
