Hippie Boy

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[Verse]

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[Verse 1]
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My hippie boy don't want to* be a 
man
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My hippie boy don't want to 
understand
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My hippie boy lives in a 
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volkswagon van

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My hippie boy don't don't know how 
to communicate
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Says he knows love that knows no 
hate
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My hippie boy leaves his life up 
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to fate   (Break)
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... yeah he's my hippie boy
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[Verse 2]
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My hippie boy don't know his* own 
feelings
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Wants to draw flowers on my ceiling
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I think my hippies boy's trying 
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to do me in

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My hippie boy don't don't follow the
 commandments
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Don't follow law, he don't follow 
government
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My hippie boy wants to start his 
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own settlement (his own settlement)
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...yeah he's my hippie boy


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[Chorus]
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And he said "come sit beside me
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And tell me 'bout the things you 
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adore
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And please don't remind me that
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I am not the boy you'd hoped 
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for..."

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[Verse 3]
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My hippie boy won't get up *off his 
ass
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He don't care if he fail or if he 
pass
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My hippie boy ... I know he's 
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been smoking grass
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My hippie boy don't ever know where 
to begin
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He says he wasn't put on this earth 
to fit it
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My hippie boy got his mama 
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sticking up for him (she’s always 
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sticking up for him)
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... yeah he's my hippie boy
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[Chorus]
    D   G       C
And he said "come sit beside me
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And tell me 'bout the things you 
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adore
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And please don't remind me that
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I am not the boy you'd hoped for...
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No, daddy, that I have not become 
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what you hoped for”

[Interlude]
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[Verse 4]
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My hippie boy left our lives *to 
join a band
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Says his band plays throughout the 
land
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My hippie boy bought his mom a 
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car for 20 grand
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They say he's putting our town up on
 the map
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The mayor called this morning for a 
photograph
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Now he kids are asking me for my 
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autograph
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... because of my hippie boy
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