From: steve gill [email protected]
Bellamy Brothers :: Old Hippie
Corrected by steve gill
And for ease of playing transposed from B,E,F# to A,D,E
Cords in brackets are the trans posed cords
B(A)
He turned thirty-five last Sunday
E(D) B(A)
In his hair he found some gray
B(A)
But he still ain’t changed his lifestyle
F#(E)
He likes it better the old way
E(D) B(A)
So he grows a little garden in the back yard by the fence
E(D) F#(E)
He’s consuming what he’s growing nowadays in self defense
B(A)
He get’s out there in the twilight zone
E(D) B(A)
Sometimes when it just don’t make no sense.
B(A) E(D) B(A)
He gets off on country music,Cause disco left him cold
B(A) F#(E)
He’s got young friends in the new wave, Buts he’s just too friggin old
E(D) B(A)
And he dreams at night of Woodstock, And the day john Lennon died
E(D) F#(E)
How the music made him happy, And the silence made him cry
B(A) E(D) B(A)
Yeah he think’s of Jhon sometimes and he has to wonder why
Chorus:
E(D) B(A)
Cause he’s an old hippie and he don’t know what to do
F#(E) B(A)
Should he hang on to the old, should he grab onto the new
E(D) B(A)
He’s an old hippie, this new life is just a fuss
F#(E) E(D) B(A)
He ain’t trying to change nobody, he’s just trying real hard to adjust.
B(A) E(D)
He was sure back in the sixty’s, that everyone was hip
B(A) F#(E)
Then they sent him of to vietnam, on his senior trip
E(D) B(A)
And they forced him to become a man, While he was still a boy
E(D) F#(E)
And behind each wave of tragedy he waited for the joy
B(A) E(D) B(A)
Now this world may change around him, but he just can’t change no more
Chorus:
E(D) B(A)
Cause he’s an old hippie and he don’t know what to do
F#(E) B(A)
Should he hang on to the old, should he grab onto the new
E(D) B(A)
He’s an old hippie, this new life is just a fuss
F#(E) E(D) B(A)
He ain’t trying to change nobody, he’s just trying real hard to adjust.
B(A) E(D) B(A)
Well he stay’s away a lot now, from the parties and the club’s
F#(E)
And he’s thinking while he’s jogging around
E(D)
Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs,
B(A) E(D)
Cause him and his kind get more endangered every day
F#(E) B(A)
And pretty soon the species will just up and fade away
E(D) B(A)
Like the smoke from that torpedo just up and fade away.
Chorus:
E(D) B(A)
Yeah he’s an old hippie and he don’t know what to do
F#(E) B(A)
Should he hang on to the old, should he grab onto the new
E(D) B(A)
He,s an old hippie, this new life is just a fuss
F#(E) E(D) B(A)
He ain’t trying to change nobody, he’s just trying real hard to adjust
F#(E) E(D) B(A)
Yeah He ain’t trying to change nobody, he’s just trying real hard to adjust