Old Hippie

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. 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

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English: 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 / 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 in each wave of tragedy he waited for the joy / Now this world may change around him, but he just can't change no more

About the artist

American country-pop duo of brothers Howard and David Bellamy from Darby, Florida. [Source: Wikipedia]

Themes

Vet