Bellamy Brothers - Old Hippie Lyrics

[Shawn]

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 back yard 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

He gets off on country music

Cause disco left him cold

He's got young friends into new wave

But he's just too friggin' 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

Yeah he thinks of John sometimes

And he has to wonder why

Chorus:

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...his 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 forced 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 no more

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

Chorus

[slum_goddess]

oh my, where to begin?

[Shawn]

Perhaps here?

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

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

;)

[slum_goddess]

i wish i could do that. thwoo-oooop! :)

[Shawn]

He get's out there in the twilight zone

Sometimes when it just don't make no sense

[slum_goddess]

when i first read this in june, i just dint understand what his problem was (w/things like 'He's got young friends into new wave/But he's just too friggin' old' i'm like what the fuck?) but now i see (last line) he's shell-shocked--that explains EVERYthing. (i also think he needs to get laid)

[Shawn]

I thought he was just tired.

[Shawn]

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g_d

[Redneck4sure]

I like the sequel to old hippie, too. They also had Old Hippie Christmas but I don't have that one. I wish I did. I've looked but no luck. :wha':