Old Hippie
1985 · MCA 52579 · USA
- Artist
- The Bellamy Brothers
- Title
- Old Hippie
- Release
- Old Hippie / Wheels
- Year
- 1985
- Label
- MCA # 52579
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
The song "Old Hippie" (MCA Records # 52579) by the Bellamy Brothers. On the 1985 album Howard & David (MCA # 5586) Later released a sequel called "Old Hippie (The Sequel)" from the 1995 album Sons of Beaches (Bellamy Brothers Records # SCD 27). Country pop. About a Vietnam veteran adjusting to the changes in society. Post-war. "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, 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...his new life is just a bust He ain't trying to change nobody, he's just trying real hard to adjust…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
American country-pop duo of brothers Howard and David Bellamy from Darby, Florida. [Source: Wikipedia]