Standard (EADGBE)

 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

buts he's just too damn 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

Yea 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 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 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 force 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 nomore

== 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

>>This song sounds best when you alternate between

G and D for the bass on the G-chord; The C and middle

E on the C-Chord; and D and A on the D-chord. Play it

with "boom chuka" rhythm.