Old Hippie

Belamy Brothers

Old Hippie - The Bellamy Brothers
 
[Verse 1]
G
He turned thirty-five last Sunday,
C                         G
in his hair he found some gray
 
But he still ain't changed his lifestyle,
                           D
he likes it better the old way
      C
So he grows a little garden
            G
in the back yard by the fence
     C
He's consuming what he's growing
    G                   D
nowadays in self defense
        G
He gets out there in the twilight zone
    C                             G
Sometimes when it just don't make no sense
 

[Verse 2]
G
He gets off on country music,
C                       G
  'cause disco left him cold
 
And he's got young friends into new wave,
                           D
but he's just too friggin' old
       C
And he dreams at night of Woodstock
        G
and the day John Lennon died
        C
How the music made him happy,
        G                D
and the silence made him cry
         G
Yeah, he thinks of John sometimes
       C             G
and he has to wonder why
 
{ CHORUS }
               C
'Cause he's an old hippie
       G
and he don't know what to do
          D
Should he hang on to the old
          G
Should he grab on to the new
        C
He's an old hippie
         G
This new life is just a bust
         D
He ain't trying to change nobody
          C           D       G
He's just trying real hard to adjust
 
[Verse 3]
G
He was sure back in the sixties
C                 G
that everyone was hip
 
Then they sent him off to Vietnam
              D
on his senior trip
         C
And they forced him to become a man
      G
while he was still a boy
           C
And behind each wave of tragedy
   G              D
he waited for the joy
         G
Now this world may change around him,
C                           G
but he just can't change no more
 
{ CHORUS }
               C
'Cause he's an old hippie
       G
and he don't know what to do
          D
Should he hang on to the old
          G
Should he grab on to the new
        C
He's an old hippie
         G
This new life is just a bust
         D
He ain't trying to change nobody
          C           D       G
He's just trying real hard to adjust
 
[Verse 4]
G
Well, he stays away a lot now
C                        G
from the parties and the clubs
 
And he's thinking while he's joggin' 'round
                              D
sure is glad he quit the hard drugs
       C                         G
'Cause him and his kind get more endangered every day
C
and pretty soon the species
          G              D
will just up and fade away
         G
Like the smoke from that torpedo
     C           G
just up and fade away
 
{ CHORUS }
              C
Yeah, he's an old hippie
       G
and he don't know what to do
          D
Should he hang on to the old
          G
Should he grab on to the new
        C
He's an old hippie
         G
This new life is just a bust
         D
He ain't trying to change nobody
          C           D       G
He's just trying real hard to adjust
               D
Yeah, he ain't trying to change nobody
          C           D       G
He's just trying real hard to adjust
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