Old hippie (orig. version)
1. He turned 35 last Sunday, in his hair he found some gray,
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but he
still ain't changed his lifestyle, he likes it better the old way.
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So he
grows a little garden in the backyard by the fence,
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A E
he's
consuming what he's growing now-a-days in self-defense.
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D
He
gets out there in the twilight zone sometimes,
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when
it just don't make no sense.
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2. He gets off on country music, 'cause disco left him cold,
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he's
got young friends into new wave, but he's just too friggin’ old.
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A
And he
dreams at night of Woodstock and the day John Lennon died,
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How the music made him happy and the silence made him cry.
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Yeah,
he thinks of John sometimes, and he
has to wonder why.
'Cause 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 he grab
onto the new?
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He's an old hippie, this new life is just a bust,
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D A E A
he ain't tryin' to change nobody, he's just
tryin' real hard to adjust.
3. He was sure back in the sixties, that everyone was hip,
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then
they sent him off to Vietnam, on his senior trip.
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A
And
they forced him to become a man while he was still a boy,
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A E
and
behind each wave of tragedy, he waited for the joy.
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D
Now
this world may change around him,
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but he
just can't change no more.
4. Well, he stays away a lot now, from the parties and the clubs.
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sure
is glad he quit the hard drugs.
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'Cause
him and his kind get more endangered every day,
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A E
and pretty soon the species will just up and fade away.
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Like
the smoke from that torpedo, just up
and fade away.
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He ain't tryin' to change nobody, he's just tryin' real hard to adjust.