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Old Hippie 10 Years Later

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The Bellamy Brothers started their musical career at the end of the 1960s. In 1968, they had their first official gig, playing a free show with their father at the Rattlesnake Roundup in San Antonio, Florida, USA. They kept playing throughout the South, often with already recognized musicians, such as Percy Sledge, Eddie Floyd and others. A couple of months later, the brothers moved up north, discovering the potentials of rock/country music in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Old Hippie 10 years later Bellamy Bros

[Verse 1]
G C G
He'll be 45 come Wednesday, his gray hair is getting thin,
C D
But he still has hanging in there, don't feel too bad for the shape he's in,
C G
He's seen yuppies in the white house, but he thinks their gonna fail,
C G D
But he just don't trust a President, that never has inhaled.
Bm C G
And he prays to God to stop this crime, but it seems to no avail.

[Verse 2]
G C G
Well he still loves country music, but he's been left out in the dark,
C D
Cause they don't play Merle and George no more, he don't know Billy Ray from Garth,
C G
And he's heard of Woodstock too but he never could compete,
C G D
But he was there the day the Hendricks played the Anthem with his teeth,
Bm C G
Back when all those grunge bands couldn't even keep a beat.

[Chorus]
C G
He's an old Hippie, even older than before,
D G
Wondering what to pay attention to and what should be ignored,
C G
He's an old hippie, still adjusting to the change,
D C D G
He's just trying to find some balance, in a world, gone totally insane.

[Verse 3]
G C G
He still thinks back on the sixties, but not in the same way,
C D
They built a wall to his war, then forgot the MIA,
C G
And he's trying to be a nineties man but it's too much of a bore,
C G D
Those fax machines and cell phones ain't what he was put here for,
Bm C G
And in a world selling sex and music, he's a last old dinosaur.

[Chorus]
C G
He's an old Hippie, even older than before,
D G
Wondering what to pay attention to and what should be ignored,
C G
He's an old hippie, still adjusting to the change,
D C D G
He's just trying to find some balance, in a world, gone totally insane.

[Verse 4]
G C G
Well he comes on home from work now, takes some time up with the kids,
C D
Try to teach them right from wrong, hope they don't learn it the way that he did,
C G
And his eyes are on the future but it's looking pretty sad,
C G D
And with every day that passes he becomes more like his Dad,
Bm C G
He hopes that when this century turns around, things won't be so bad.

[Chorus]
C G
He's an old Hippie, even older than before,
D G
Wondering what to pay attention to and what should be ignored,
C G
He's an old hippie, still adjusting to the change,
D C D G
He's just trying to find some balance, in a world, gone totally insane.

[Outro]
D C D G
He's just trying to find some balance, in a world, gone totally insane.