Old Hippie - Bellamy Brothers [Verse 1] [G]He turned thirty-five last Sunday, [C]In his hair he found some [G]gray But he still ain't changed his lifestyle, He likes it better the old [D]way So he [C]grows a little garden in the back [G]yard by the fence He's [C]consuming what he's growing nowa[G]days in self defense[D] He get's [G]out there in the twilight zone Some [C]times when it just don't make [G]no sense [Verse 2] [G]He gets off on country music, [C] cause disco left him [G]cold He's got young friends into new wave, buts he's just too friggin [D]old And he [C]dreams at night of Woodstock and the [G]day John Lennon died how the [C]music made him happy, and the [G]silence made him [D]cry Yeah he [G]thinks of John sometimes and he [C]has to wonder [G]why |[Chorus] |He's an [C]old hippie, and he [G]don't know what to do |should he [D]hang on to the old, should he [G]grab on to the new |he's an [C]old hippie, his new [G]life is just a bust |he ain't [D]trying to change nobody, he just [C]trying real [D]hard to [G]adjust [Verse 3] [G]He was sure back in the sixties [C]that everyone was [G]hip Then they sent him off to Vietnam on his senior [D]trip And they [C]force him to become a man while [G]he was still a boy and in [C]each wave of tragedy he [G]waited for the [D]joy Now this [G]world may change around him [C]but he just can't change no [G]more [Chorus] [Verse 4] [G]Well he stays away a lot now [C]from the parties and the [G]clubs And he's thinking while he's joggin' 'round Sure is glad he quit the hard [D]drugs Cause [C]him and his kind get more [G]endangered everyday [C]And pretty soon the species will just [G]up and fade away[D] Like the [G]smoke from that torpedo just [C]up and fade [G]away |[Chorus] |He's an [C]old hippie, and he [G]don't know what to do |should he [D]hang on to the old, should he [G]grab on to the new |he's an [C]old hippie, his new [G]life is just a bust |he ain't [D]trying to change nobody, he just [C]trying real [D]hard to [G]adjust