Old hippie  Bellamy Brothers

##song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. ##Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 23:25:06 -0400#Subject: Cowpie Newsletter submission#To: g.vaughn@ttu.edu.ddn.MTS.wpafb.af.mil#App-Message-Id: <8455212318041995/A34165/YODA/119495D52500>##by The Bellamy Brothers[G]He turned thirty-five last Sunday


[C]In his hair he found some [G]gray


But he still ain't changed his lifestyle


[C]He likes it better the old[D] way


So he [C]grows a little garden in the bac[G]k yard by the fence


He's cons[C]uming what he's growing nowa[G]days in self defense


He get's [D]out there in the twilight zone


somet[C]imes when it just don't make no[G] sense


He gets off on country music


cause disco left him cold


He's got young friends into new wave


buts he's just too damn old


And he dreams at night of Woodstock


and the day John Lennon died


how the music made him happy


and the silence made him cry


Yea he thinks of John sometimes


and he has to wonder why


== Chorus ==


He's an [C]old hippie


and he d[G]on't know what to do


should h[D]ang on to the old


should he g[G]rab on to the new


he's an o[C]ld hippie


his new l[G]ife is just a bust


he ain't [D]trying to change nobody


he just [C]trying real [D]hard to ad[G]just


He was sure back in the sixties


that everyone was hip


Then they sent him off to Vietnam


on his senior trip


And they force him to become a man


while he was still a boy


and in each wave of tragedy


he waited for the joy


Now this world may change around him


but he just can't change nomore


== Chorus ==


Well he stays away a lot now


from the parties and the clubs


And he's thinking while he's joggin' 'round


Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs


Cause him and his kind get more endangered everyday


And pretty soon the species


will just up and fade away


Like the smoke from that torpedo


just up and fade away


>>This song sounds best when you alternate between


G and D for the bass on the G-chord; The C and middle


E on the C-Chord; and D and A on the D-chord.  Play it


with "boom chuka" rhythm.


~Marvin Potts  ~