B                                 E                         B 
He turned thirty-five last Sunday in his hair he found some gray 
                                                                F# 
But he still ain't changed his lifestyle 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 now-a days in self defense 
   B 
He gets out there in the twilight zone  
    E                                B 
Sometimes when it just don't make no sense 

                             E                    B 
He gets off on country music cause disco left him cold 
                                                            F# 
He's got young friends in a new wave but he's just too damn 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                    B 
Yeah he thinks of John sometimes and he has to wonder why 

        E                 B 
He's an old hippie and he don't know what to do     
          F#                           B 
Should he hang on to the old should he grab on to the new  
        E                          B 
He's an old hippie his new life is just a bust 
         F#                              E           F#      B 
He ain't trying to change nobody he just trying real hard to adjust 
  
                        E                         B 
He was sure back in the sixties that everyone was hip 
                                                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                           B 
Now this world may change around him but he just can't change no more 

 

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                             E                         B 
Well he stays away a lot now from the parties and the clubs 

And he's thinking while he's jogging around  
                              F# 
Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs  
      E                           B 
Cause him and his kind get more endangered everyday 
    E                            B                F# 
And pretty soon the species will just up and fade away 
         B                       E                B 
Like the smoke from that torpedo just up and fade away