Chords for Bellamy Brothers "Old Hippie" 1985

_ Would you welcome our special guest Howard and David the Bellamy Brothers _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ He turned 35 last Sunday
[E] in his Harry Pounds and
But _ _ _ _ he still ain't changed his lifestyle.
He likes it better the [F#] old way
_ _ _ _ So we [E] grow a little garden and [B] _ fence.
He's [E] consuming what he's growing
[B] Nowadays in self [F#]-defense he gets out there in the twilight zone [E] sometimes when it just don't make
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ Cause disco
[B] _ _ _ _ _ But he's got a young friend in the new way, but he's just too [F#] friggin old _ _ _ _ _
[E] Any dreams that matter what stock [B] and a day John Lennon died
[E] How the music made him happy [B] and the silence made him cry
[B] He thinks of John sometimes
[E] _ And he has to [B] wonder why
He _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ ain't _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
[F#] trying to shame nobody he [C#m] just trying real _
_ Well, _ _ _ _ he was sure back in the 60s
[E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Cinema
_ _ _ _ On his [F#] senior trip _ _ _ _ _
[E] And they forced him to become a man while [B] he was still a boy [E] and behind each wave of tragedy
[B] He waited for the [F#] door now this world may change around
[E] _ [B] But he just can't [B] change no more
_ _ Yeah
[E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ You [E] just try and real hard
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ Well, he stays away a lot now [E] _ from the parties [B] and the clubs _ _ _ _ _
Any second while he's jogging around
Sure is glad he [F#] quit the hard drug _ _ _ _
[E] Love him and his kind get [B] more endangered every day
[E] And pretty soon the species [B] will just up and [F#] fade away
[B] like a smoke from that torpedo
_ [E] _ [B] Just up and fade away
_ _ _ _ _ Yeah
[E] _ _ _ _ [B] Should _ [F#] he hang on to the old?
Should [B] he grab on? _ _
[E] _ _ Man, it's [B] true
Nobody _
[F#] _ _ he [E] just try real hard
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#] _ Nobody just try real hard
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D#] _