Old Hippie Chords by The Bellamy Brothers

[Start]

[Verse]
B                                  E
■ He turned thirtyfive last Sunday ■
                     B        
In his hair he found some gray
    B                                   
But he still ain't changed his lifestyle
                   F#         
He likes it better the old way
   E                           B                         
So he grows a little garden in the back yard by the fence
E                                B                F#     
He's consuming what he's growing nowadays in self defense
B                                      
He get's out there in the twilight zone
E                                 B       
Sometimes when it just don't make no sense


[Chorus]
                             E
He gets off on country music ■
                  B       
'cause disco left him cold
         B                              
And he's got young friends into new wave
                           F# 
But he's just too friggin' old
    E                                   B                       
And he dreams at night of Woodstock and the day John Lennon died
E                                B                F#     
How the music made him happy and the silence made him cry
B                      E        
Yeah he thinks of John sometimes
                     B  
And he has to wonder why
B7        E                  B                           
■  'cause he's an old hippie and he don't know what to do
F#                          
Should he hang on to the old
B                           
Should he grab on to the new
E                       B                      
He's an old hippie this new life is just a bust
   F#                           
He ain't trying to change nobody
E                          B        
He's just trying real hard to adjust
                                E               B      
He was sure back in the sixties ■ that everyone was hip


[Verse]
                                         F#         
Then they sent him off to Vietnam on his senior trip
    E                               B                       
And they forced him to become a man while he was still a boy
    E                           B             F#     
And behind each wave of tragedy he waited for the joy
B                                    E
Now this world may change around him ■
                         B      
But he just can't change no more


[Chorus]
       E                      B                       
'cause he's an old hippie and he don't know what to do
       F#                   
Should he hang on to the old
       B                    
Should he grab on to the new
E                       B                      
He's an old hippie this new life is just a bust
F#                              
He ain't trying to change nobody
     E           B                  
He's just trying real hard to adjust


[Verse]
                             E                          B    
Well he stays away a lot now ■ from the parties and the clubs
    B                                      
And he's thinking while he's joggin' 'round
                     F#            
Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs


[Chorus]
E                                B                  
'cause him and his kind get more endangered everyday
E                                B                    
And pretty soon the species will just up and fade away
                                 E             B        
Like the smoke from that torpedo ■ just up and fade away
     E                  B                           
Yeah he's an old hippie and he don't know what to do
       F#                   
Should he hang on to the old
B                           
Should he grab on to the new
E                       B                      
He's an old hippie this new life is just a bust
   F#                           
He ain't trying to change nobody
E                          C# B     
He's just trying real hard to adjust
        F#                           
Yeah he ain't trying to change nobody
E                D#m          B     
He's just trying real hard to adjust


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