B Our daddies won the war and came home to our moms They gave them so much love that all us kids were born E We all grew up on Mickey Mouse and hula-hoops B Then we all bought BMW's and brand new pickup trucks D#m F#7 And we watched John Kennedy die one afternoon B Kids of the baby boom It was a time of new prosperity in the USA All the fortunate off springs never had to pay E We had sympathy for the devil and the Rolling Stones B Then we got a little older we found Haggard and Jones D#m F#7 A generation screaming for more room B Kids of the baby boom E Kids of the baby boom we had freedom we had money B Baby boom here in the land of milk and honey D#m F#7 Counting our chickens way too soon B Kids of the baby boom Now we all can run computers and we all can dance We all have Calvin Klein written on our underpants E And at six-o'clock like robots we turn on the news B Watch those third world countries deal out more abuse D#m F#7 Remember the first man on the moon B Kids of the baby boom E Kids of the baby boom we had freedom we had money B Baby boom here in the land of milk and honey D#m F#7 Counting our chickens way too soon B Kids of the baby boom As our lives become a capsule they send to the stars And our children look at us like we came from Mars E As the farms disappear and the sky turns black B We're a nation full of takers never giving back D#m F#7 We never stop to think what we consume B Kids of the baby boom E Kids of the baby boom we had freedom we had money B Baby boom here in the land of milk and honey D#m F#7 Counting our chickens way too soon B Kids of the baby boom D#m F#7 Our optimism mingles with the doom B Kids of the baby boom
