Old Hippie-The Bellamy Brothers

[ti:Old Hippie] [ar:The Bellamy Brothers] [al:40 Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Old Hippie - The Bellamy Brothers [00:08.96]He turned thirty five last sunday [00:11.11] [00:12.50]In his hair he found some gray [00:14.44] [00:18.36]But he still ain't changed his lifestyle [00:20.47] [00:21.80]He likes it better the old way [00:23.90] [00:27.39]So he grows a little garden in the back yard by the fence [00:32.19]He's consuming what he's growing nowadays in self defense [00:36.02] [00:36.68]He get's out there in the twilight zone [00:39.26]Sometimes when it just don't make no sense [00:42.52] [00:45.87]He gets off on country music [00:47.98] [00:49.72]Cause disco left him cold [00:51.67] [00:55.16]He's got young friends into new wave [00:57.28] [00:59.07]But he's just too friggin' old [01:00.20] [01:04.42]And he dreams at night of woodstock and the day [01:07.52]John lennon died [01:08.55] [01:09.45]How the music made him happy and the silence made him cry [01:14.02]Yeah he thinks of john sometimes [01:15.97] [01:17.54]And he has to wonder why [01:19.14] [01:22.91]He's an old hippie and he don't know what to do [01:27.16] [01:27.68]Should he hang on to the old [01:29.39] [01:30.00]Should he grab on to the new [01:31.70] [01:32.37]He's an old hippie his new life is just a bust [01:36.88]He ain't trying to change nobody [01:38.55] [01:39.11]He's just trying real hard to adjust [01:42.26] [01:46.06]He was sure back in the sixties that everyone was hip [01:51.47] [01:55.41]Then they sent him off to vietnam on his senior trip [02:00.98] [02:04.39]And they forced him to become a man while he was still a boy [02:08.79] [02:09.35]And in each wave of tragedy he waited for the joy [02:13.13] [02:13.87]Now this world may change around him [02:15.89] [02:17.28]But he just can't change no more [02:19.13] [02:22.87]He's an old hippie and he don't know what to do [02:27.04] [02:27.65]Should he hang on to the old [02:29.90]Should he grab on to the new [02:31.75] [02:32.41]He's an old hippie his new life is just a bust [02:37.06]He ain't trying to change nobody [02:38.61] [02:39.39]He's just trying real hard to adjust [02:42.25] [02:46.00]Well he stays away a lot now from the parties and the clubs [02:51.41] [02:55.47]And he's thinking while he's joggin' around [02:57.88] [02:58.90]Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs [03:01.30] [03:04.86]Cause him and his kind get more endangered everyday [03:08.25] [03:09.48]And pretty soon the species will just up and fade away [03:13.45] [03:14.02]Like the smoke from that torpedo just up and fade away [03:19.12] [03:22.85]He's an old hippie and he don't know what to do [03:27.59]Should he hang on to the old [03:29.87]Should he grab on to the new [03:31.79] [03:32.42]He's an old hippie his new life is just a bust [03:36.90]He ain't trying to change nobody [03:38.64] [03:39.18]He's just trying real hard to adjust [03:41.99] [03:45.69]He ain't trying to change nobody [03:47.63] [03:48.31]He's just trying real hard to adjust