Brothers Bellamy Old Hippie Lyrics

Old Hippie Lyrics

Old Hippie 

 The Bellamy Brothers 

  

 G 

 He turned thirty-five last Sunday 

 C                         G 

 In his hair he found some gray 

  

 But he still ain't changed his lifestyle 

 C                         D 

 He likes it better the old way 

 C                               G 

 So he grows a little garden in the back yard by the fence 

 C                           G 

 He's consuming what he's growing nowadays in self defense 

 D 

 He get's out there in the twilight zone 

 C                              G 

 sometimes when it just don't make no sense 

  

 He gets off on country music 

 cause disco left him cold 

 He's got young friends into new wave 

 buts he's just too damn old 

 And he dreams at night of Woodstock 

 and the day John Lennon died 

 how the music made him happy 

 and the silence made him cry 

 Yea he thinks of John sometimes 

 and he has to wonder why 

  

 == Chorus == 

  

 C 

 He's an old hippie 

 G 

 and he don't know what to do 

 D 

 should hang on to the old 

 G 

 should he grab on to the new 

 C 

 he's an old hippie 

 G 

 his new life is just a bust 

 D 

 he ain't trying to change nobody 

 C           D         G 

 he just trying real hard to adjust 

  

  

 He was sure back in the sixties 

 that everyone was hip 

 Then they sent him off to Vietnam 

 on his senior trip 

 And they force him to become a man 

 while he was still a boy 

 and in each wave of tragedy 

 he waited for the joy 

 Now this world may change around him 

 but he just can't change nomore 

  

 == Chorus == 

  

 Well he stays away a lot now 

 from the parties and the clubs 

 And he's thinking while he's joggin' 'round 

 Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs 

 Cause him and his kind get more endangered everyday 

 And pretty soon the species 

 will just up and fade away 

 Like the smoke from that torpedo 

 just up and fade away