Old Hippie The Bellamy Brothers
Old Hippie - The Bellamy Brothers
[G] He turned thirty-five last Sunday,
[C] In his hair he found some [G] gray
But he still ain't changed his lifestyle,
[C] He likes it better the old [D] way
So he [C] grows a little garden
in the back [G] yard by the fence
He's [C] consuming what he's growing
nowa [G] days in self defense
He get's [D] out there in the twilight zone
Some [C] times when it just don't make [G] no sense
[G] He gets off on country music,
[cb]C [/cb]] cause disco left him [G] cold
He's got young friends into new wave,
[C] buts he's just too [D] friggin old
And he [cb]C [/cb]] dreams at night of Woodstock
and the [cb]G [/cb]] day John Lennon died
how the [cb]C [/cb]] music made him happy,
and the [cb]G [/cb]] silence made him [D] cry
Yea he [Bm] thinks of John sometimes
and he [cb]C [/cb]] has to wonder [cb]G [/cb]] why
He's an [C] old hippie
and he [G] don't know what to do
should [D] hang on to the old
should he [G] grab on to the new
he's an [C] old hippie
his new [G] life is just a bust
he ain't [D] trying to change nobody
he just [C] trying real [D] hard to [G] adjust
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[G] He was sure back in the sixties
[C] that everyone was [G] hip
Then they sent him off to Vietnam
[C] on his senior [D] trip
And they [cb]C [/cb]] force him to become a man
while [cb]G [/cb]] he was still a boy
and in [cb]C [/cb]] each wave of tragedy
he [cb]G [/cb]] waited for the [D] joy
Now this [cb]Bm [/cb]] world may change around him
[C] but he just can't change no [G] more
He's an [C] old hippie
and he [G] don't know what to do
should [D] hang on to the old
should he [G] grab on to the new
he's an [C] old hippie
his new [G] life is just a bust
he ain't [D] trying to change nobody
he just [C] trying real [D] hard to [G] adjust
[G] Well he stays away a lot now
[cb]C [/cb]] from the parties and the [G] clubs
[cb]C [/cb]] And he's thinking while he's [G] joggin' 'round
Sure is [cb]C [/cb]] glad he quit the hard [cb]D [/cb]] drugs
Cause [cb]C [/cb]] him and his kind get more [cb]G [/cb]] endangered everyday
[cb]C [/cb]] And pretty soon the species
will just [cb]G [/cb]] up and fade away
Like the [cb]D [/cb]] smoke from that torpedo
just [cb]C [/cb]] up and fade [cb]G [/cb]] away
He's an [C] old hippie
and he [G] don't know what to do
should [D] hang on to the old
should he [G] grab on to the new
he's an [C] old hippie
his new [G] life is just a bust
he ain't [D] trying to change nobody
he just [C] trying real [D] hard to [G] adjust
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