Younger Generation

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Why must every generation think 
                        Dm
their folks are so square?
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And no matter where their heads 
                          C
are they know moms ain't there?
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Cause I swore when I was small 
                 Dm
that I'd remember when
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I knew whats wrong with them that 
                 C
I was smaller then.

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Determined to remember all the 
             Dm
cardinal rules,
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Like sun showers are legal grounds
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 for cutting school.
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I know I have forgotten maybe one 
    Dm
or two,
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And I hope that I recall them all
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 before the baby's due,
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And I know hell have a question 
    C
or two.

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Like "Hey Pop, can I go ride my 
       Em
Zoom?"
Am             G                 
"It goes two hundred miles an 
         C          Em
hour suspended on balloons".
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"And can I put a droplet of this
                     Em
 new stuff on my tongue,
Am                                
"And imagine frothing dragons 
                             Dm
while you sit and wreck your lungs?
G                       
And I must be permissive, 
                  Dm        
understanding of the younger 
            G
generation.

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Then I'll know that all Ive le  
                   Dm
arned my kid assumes,
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And all my deepest worries must be
            C
 his cartoons,
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And still I'll try to tell him all
                  C
 the things I've done
G                                 
Related to what he can do when he 
            C
becomes a man,
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And still hell stick his fingers 
        C
in the fan.

F           G            C      
And "Hey, Pop, my girlfriends 
      Em
only three,
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"Shes got her own videophone and
                 Em
 she's taking L.S.D.,
F                   G            
"And now that were best friends 
     C                   Em
she wants to give a bit to me.
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"But what's the matter  Daddy, how
                        F7
 come youre turning green?
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"Can it be that you cant live up 
            G
to your dreams?