I Saw A Hippie Girl On 8th Avenue Acoustic chords by Jeffrey Lewis

Tuning: EADGBE

Very easy song, only 3 chords (G can also be played as a Gm)

  G                   C
I saw a hippy girl on 8th avenue
    G                         D
She barely looked at me for a second or two
       G                     C                         G
And I suddenly realized I no longer looked much like a hippy
  D
Mmmmm

          G                   C
She had a long thin dress and rainbow clothes
G              D
Not long ago I wore one of those
     G                             C               G
But now-a-days I guess I don't dress very much like anything
  D
Mmmmm

         C                         D
I had a great pair of bellbottoms, I had two
   C                           D
My friend borrowed one and the other I outgrew
    C                            D                       G  D
And now to the eye I'm turning into another non-descript guy

      G                         C
But I still travel light and my hair is still long
  G                           D
I still hate deoderant and I still sing songs
             G                          C                                  G                 D
But over the years I've noticed I'm not dressing as colourfully and psychedelic as I used to

         G                            C
'Cause I wore my tye-dyes until they rotted to shreds
          G                    D
And I can no longer follow The Greatful Dead
         G                           C                             G                 D
And it's gotten to the point where I don't even identify with most Phish fans anymore

    C                        D
And someday soon I know I'll cut my hair
      C                        D
And a week after that I know I won't even care
   C                     D
Is that what it comes to all along?
C                             D
Everything that you feel will one day feel wrong

      G
I was talking to my friend Eric
        C
Just to see what he thunk
             G
And he said "Jeff, it's weird
                D
But I no longer look like a punk
  G                                       C
I guess we don't need our clothes for an identity crutch"
       G                                  D
And we looked at each other and we didn't look like much
       G                              C
And we looked out at the world like a movie theatre
           G                             D
At all the hippies and the punks and the skinheads and the skaters
    G                       C                               G
And someday or other maybe sooner or later they'll come to the realization
              D                                      C
That what's important is whether you can carry on a human conversation
                  D
It's not what you wear on the outside
              C                     G