Lyrics Old Hippie - Re-Recorded - The Bellamy Brothers

He turned Forty-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 gets 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 in a new way
But he's just too friggin' 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
Yeah, he thinks of John sometimes
And he has to wonder why

He's an old hippie
And he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he grab on to the new

He's an old hippie
This new life is just a bust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's 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 forced him to become a man, while he was still a boy
And behind each wave of tragedy, he waited for the joy
Now this world may change around him
But he just can't change no more

He's an old hippie
And he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he grab on to the new

He's an old hippie
This new life is just a bust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust

Well, he stays away a lot now
From the parties and the clubs
And he's thinking, while he jogs around
Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs

'Cause him, and his kind get more endangered every day
And pretty soon the species will just up and fade away
Like the smoke from that torpedo
Just up and fade away

Yeah, he's an old hippie
And he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he grab on to the new

He's an old hippie
This new life is just a bust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust

Yeah, he ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust