B                                 E                         B
He turned thirty-five last Sunday in his hair he found some gray
                                                                F#
But he still ain't changed his lifestyle he likes it better the old way
      E                                 B
So he grows a little garden in the back yard by the fence
        E                              B              F#
He's consuming what he's growing now-a days in self defense
   B
He gets out there in the twilight zone 
    E                                B
Sometimes when it just don't make no sense

                             E                    B
He gets off on country music cause disco left him cold
                                                            F#
He's got young friends in a new wave but he's just too damn old
        E                                  B
And he dreams at night of Woodstock and the day John Lennon died
        E                              B              F#
How the music made him happy and the silence made him cry
        B                        E                    B
Yeah he thinks of John sometimes and he has to wonder why

        E                 B
He's an old hippie and he don't know what to do    
          F#                           B
Should he hang on to the old should he grab on to the new 
        E                          B
He's an old hippie his new life is just a bust
         F#                              E           F#      B
He ain't trying to change nobody he just trying real hard to adjust
 
                        E                         B
He was sure back in the sixties that everyone was hip
                                                F#
Then they sent him off to Vietnam on his senior trip
        E                                 B
And they forced him to become a man while he was still a boy
     E                              B              F#
And behind each wave of tragedy he waited for the joy
         B                          E                           B
Now this world may change around him but he just can't change no more

[Refrão]

                             E                         B
Well he stays away a lot now from the parties and the clubs

And he's thinking while he's jogging around 
                              F#
Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs 
      E                           B
Cause him and his kind get more endangered everyday
    E                            B                F#
And pretty soon the species will just up and fade away
         B                       E                B
Like the smoke from that torpedo just up and fade away