He turned thirty five last Sunday
In his hair he found some grey
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
Yeah He gets off on country music
Cause disco left him cold
He's got young friends into new wave
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
Cause 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...his
new life is just a bust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust
Well he was sure back in the
si ties 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...his
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'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
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...his
new life is just a bust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust
