Bellamy Brothers – Old Hippie (Guitar)

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Old Hippie - The Bellamy Brothers [Verse 1]

G
He turned thirty-five last Sunday,

C                         G
in his hair he found some gray

But he still ain't changed his lifestyle,

                           D
he likes it better the old way

      C
So he grows a little garden

            G
in the back yard by the fence

     C
He's consuming what he's growing

    G                   D
nowadays in self defense

        G
He gets out there in the twilight zone

    C                             G
Sometimes when it just don't make no sense

[Verse 2]

G
He gets off on country music,

C                       G
  'cause disco left him cold

And he's got young friends into new wave,

                           D
but he's just too friggin' old

       C
And he dreams at night of Woodstock

        G
and the day John Lennon died

        C
How the music made him happy,

        G                D
and the silence made him cry

         G
Yeah, he thinks of John sometimes

       C             G
and he has to wonder why

[Chorus]

               C
'Cause he's an old hippie

       G
and he don't know what to do

          D
Should he hang on to the old

          G
Should he grab on to the new

        C
He's an old hippie

         G
This new life is just a bust

         D
He ain't trying to change nobody

          C           D       G
He's just trying real hard to adjust

[Verse 3]

G
He was sure back in the sixties

C                 G
that everyone was hip

Then they sent him off to Vietnam

              D
on his senior trip

         C
And they forced him to become a man

      G
while he was still a boy

           C
And behind each wave of tragedy

   G              D
he waited for the joy

         G
Now this world may change around him,

C                           G
but he just can't change no more

[Chorus]

               C
'Cause he's an old hippie

       G
and he don't know what to do

          D
Should he hang on to the old

          G
Should he grab on to the new

        C
He's an old hippie

         G
This new life is just a bust

         D
He ain't trying to change nobody

          C           D       G
He's just trying real hard to adjust

[Verse 4]

G
Well, he stays away a lot now

C                        G
from the parties and the clubs

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

                              D
sure is glad he quit the hard drugs

       C                         G
'Cause him and his kind get more endangered every day

C
and pretty soon the species

          G              D
will just up and fade away

         G
Like the smoke from that torpedo

     C           G
just up and fade away

[Chorus]

              C
Yeah, he's an old hippie

       G
and he don't know what to do

          D
Should he hang on to the old

          G
Should he grab on to the new

        C
He's an old hippie

         G
This new life is just a bust

         D
He ain't trying to change nobody

          C           D       G
He's just trying real hard to adjust

               D
Yeah, he ain't trying to change nobody

          C           D       G
He's just trying real hard to adjust