Old Hippe

B                                 
He turned thirty-five last Sunday 
E                         B
in his hair he found some gray
But he still ain't changed his 
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lifestyle he likes it better the old
 way
      E                            
So he grows a little garden in the 
     B
back yard by the fence
        E                       
He's consuming what he's growing 
       B              F#
now-a days in self defense
   B
He gets out there in the twilight 
zone
    E                              
Sometimes when it just don't make 
  B
no sense

                             E     
He gets off on country music cause 
               B
disco left him cold
He's got young friends in a new wave
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 but he's just too damn old
        E                          
And he dreams at night of Woodstock
        B
 and the day John Lennon died
        E                          
How the music made him happy and 
    B              F#
the silence made him cry
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        B                        E
Yeah he thinks of John sometimes 
                    B
and he has to wonder why

        E                 B
He's an old hippie and he don't know
 what to do
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Should he hang on to the old should
    B
 he grab on to the new
        E                          
He's an old hippie his new life is 
B
just a bust
         F#                        
He ain't trying to change nobody he
      E           F#      B
 just trying real hard to adjust

                        E          
He was sure back in the sixties 
               B
that everyone was hip
Then they sent him off to Vietnam on
            F#
 his senior trip
        E                          
And they forced him to become a man
       B
 while he was still a boy
     E                             
And behind each wave of tragedy he 
 B              F#
waited for the joy
         B                         
Now this world may change around 
 E                           B
him but he just can't change no more

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                             E   
Well he stays away a lot now from 
                      B
the parties and the clubs

And he's thinking while he's jogging
 around
                              F#
Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs
      E                        
Cause him and his kind get more 
   B
endangered everyday
    E                           
And pretty soon the species will 
 B                F#
just up and fade away
         B                      
Like the smoke from that torpedo 
 E                B
just up and fade away