The Lovin' Spoonful – Younger Generation (Guitar Tab)

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Artist: The Lovin' Spoonful Song: Younger Generation A simple, sweet song.
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                                                                    Why  must

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     every   generation   think   their   folks   are   square?

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  And no matter where their heads are, they know moms ain't there           Cause I

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    swore when I was small, that I'd remember when                                          I

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    knew what's wrong with them, that I was smaller then

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                                  Det-

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     ermined  to  remember  all  the  cardinal  rules,                    Like

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     sunshowers  are  legal  grounds  for  cutting school                  I

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    know  I  have  forgotten  maybe  one  or  two                       And I

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    hope  that  I  recall  them  all  before  the  baby's  due          And I

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    know  he'll  have  a  question  or  two                             Like,
Chorus: F F/E G7 C C/B Am Hey, pop, can I go ride my zoom? F G It goes two hundred miles an hour, C C/B Am Suspended on balloons F G C C/B Am And can I put a droplet of this new stuff on my tongue? Dm D7 And imagine frothing dragons while you sit and wreck your lungs? C C/B And I must be permissive, Am Am/G Understanding of the younger generation
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Cmaj7 And then I'll know that all I've learned Dm7 My kid assumes G7 And all my deepest worries Cmaj7 Must be his cartoons, Cmaj7 And still I'll try to tell him Dm7 All the things I've done G7 Relating to what he can do Cmaj7 When he becomes a man Dm7 G7 C F C And still, he'll stick his fingers in the fan. F F/E G7 C C/B Am And hey, pop, my girlfriend's only three, F G She's got her own videophone, C C/B Am And she's taking LSD F G And now that we're best friends, C C/B Am She wants to give a bit to me Dm But what's the matter, daddy, D7 How come you're turning green? F F/E F/D F/C G7 Can it be that you can't live up to your dreams? Cmaj7 332000 Am x02210 Dm7 x00211 Dm x00231 G7 320001 D7 x00212 F x33211 F/D xx0211 F/E xx2011 F/C x33211 C/B x20010