Old Hippie

Album: Howard and David - The Best of The Bellamy Brothers (1985)
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  • He turned thirty-five last Sunday
    In his hair he found some gray
    But he still ain't changed his lifestyle
    He likes it better the old way
    So he grows a little garden in the backyard by the fence
    He's consuming what he's growing nowadays in self defense
    He get's out there in the twilight zone
    Sometimes when it just don't make no sense

    Yeh he gets off on country music
    'Cause disco left him cold
    He's got young friends into new wave
    But he's just too frigging 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

    He's an old hippie
    And he don't know what to do
    Should he hang on to the old
    Should he grab on to the new
    He's an old hippie
    This new life is just a bust
    He ain't trying to change nobody
    He's 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 behind each wave of tragedy
    He waited for the joy
    Now this world may change around him
    But he just can't change no more

    'Cause he's an old hippie
    And he don't know what to do
    Should he hang on to the old
    Should he grab on to the new
    He's an old hippie
    This new life is just a bust
    He ain't trying to change nobody
    He's just trying real hard to adjust

    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

    He's an old hippie
    And he don't know what to do
    Should he hang on to the old
    Should he grab on to the new
    He's an old hippie
    This new life is just a bust
    He ain't trying to change nobody
    He's just trying real hard to adjust, yeah he ain't tryin' to change nobody, he's just... Writer/s: DAVID M. BELLAMY
    Publisher: CONEXION MEDIA GROUP, INC.
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Comments: 3

  • Craig from San Diego, CaThis one hits home for all of us 50+ crowd.
    Am I right?
  • Ron from Terrell, TxI can so relate to both version and waiting for the 55 version.
  • Larry from Keytesville, NeBy being a Vietnam
    vet, the song Old Hippie really hit home. It is one of my favorites by the Bellamy Brothers. Larry
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