Kids of the baby boom (video)

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1. Our daddies won the war and came home to our moms,

they gave them so much love that all us kids were born.

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We all grew up on Mickey Mouse and hula-hoops,

C

then we all bought BMW's and brand new pickup trucks.

Em G

And we watched John Kenedy die one afternoon,

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kids of the baby boom.

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2. It was a time of new prosperity in the USA,

all the fortunate offsprings never had to pay.

F

We had sympathy for the devil and the Rolling Stones,

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then we got a little older, we found Haggard and Jones,

Em G

a generation screaming for more room,

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kids of the baby boom.

F

Kids of the baby boom, we had freedom, we had money,

C

baby boom, here in the land of milk and honey,

Em G

counting our chickens way too soon,

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kids of the baby boom.

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3. Now we all can run computers and we all can dance,

we all have Calvin Klein written on our underpants,

F

and at six-o'clock, like robots, we turn on the news,

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watch those third world countries deal out more abuse,

Em G

remember the first man on the moon,

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kids of the baby boom.

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4. As our lives become a capsule they sent to the stars,

and our children look at us like we came from Mars,

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as the farms disappear and the sky turns black,

C

we're a nation full of takers, never giving back,

Em G

we never stop to think what we consume,

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kids of the baby boom.

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Our optimism mingles with the doom, kids of the baby boom.

(orig. = capo 2nd) (Bellamy Brothers)