Old Hippie

Tuning: Standard EBGDAE Difficulty: Novice Old Hippie - 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 back [G] yard by the fence He's [C] consuming what he's growing nowa [G] days in self defense He get's [D] out there in the twilight zone Some [C] times when it just don't make [G] no sense [G] He gets off on country music, [C ] cause disco left him [G] cold He's got young friends into new wave, [C] buts he's just too [D] friggin 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 Yea he [Bm] thinks of John sometimes and he [C ] has to wonder [G ] why He's an [C] old hippie and he [G] don't know what to do should [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 [G] He was sure back in the sixties [C] that everyone was [G] hip Then they sent him off to Vietnam [C] 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 [Bm ] world may change around him [C] but he just can't change no [G] more He's an [C] old hippie and he [G] don't know what to do should [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 [G] Well he stays away a lot now [C ] from the parties and the [G] clubs [C ] And he's thinking while he's [G] joggin' 'round Sure is [C ] 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 Like the [D ] smoke from that torpedo just [C ] up and fade [G ] away He's an [C] old hippie and he [G] don't know what to do should [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