Verse 1
G 
He turned thirty-five last Sunday,  
C                         G 
In his hair he found some gray 
But he still ain't changed his lifestyle,  
C                          D 
He likes it better the old way 
      C 
So he grows a little garden  
            G 
in the back yard by the fence 
     C 
He's consuming what he's growing 
    G  
nowadays in self defense 
         D 
He get's out there in the twilight zone  
     C                             G 
Some times when it just don't make no sense 
 
Verse 2
G 
He gets off on country music,  
C                      G 
  cause disco left him cold 
He's got young friends into new wave,  
C                  D 
buts he's just too friggin old 
       C 
And he dreams at night of Woodstock  
        G 
and the day John Lennon died 
        C  
how the music made him happy,  
        G                D 
and the silence made him cry 
        Bm 
Yeah he thinks of John sometimes 
       C             G 
and he has to wonder why 
 
Chorus
        C 
He's an old hippie 
       G 
and he don't know what to do 
       D 
should hang on to the old 
          G 
should he grab on to the new 
        C 
he's an old hippie 
        G 
his new life is just a bust 
         D 
he ain't trying to change nobody 
        C           D       G 
he just trying real hard to adjust 
 
Verse 3
G 
He was sure back in the sixties 
C                 G 
that everyone was hip 
Then they sent him off to Vietnam 
C             D 
on his senior trip 
         C 
And they force him to become a man 
      G 
while he was still a  boy 
       C 
and in each wave of tragedy 
   G              D 
he waited for the joy 
         Bm 
Now this world may change around him 
C                           G 
but he just can't change no more 
 
Chorus
        C 
He's an old hippie 
       G 
and he don't know what to do 
       D 
should hang on to the old 
          G 
should he grab on to the new 
        C 
he's an old hippie 
        G 
his new life is just a bust 
         D 
he ain't trying to change nobody 
        C           D       G 
he just trying real hard to adjust 
 
Verse 4
G 
Well he stays away a lot now 
C                        G 
from the parties and the clubs 
C                            G 
And he's thinking while he's joggin' 'round 
        C                     D 
Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs 
      C                         G 
Cause him and his kind get more endangered everyday 
C 
And pretty soon the species  
          G 
will just up and fade away 
         D 
Like the smoke from that torpedo 
     C           G 
just up and fade away 
 
Outro
        C 
He's an old hippie 
       G 
and he don't know what to do 
       D 
should hang on to the old 
          G 
should he grab on to the new 
        C 
he's an old hippie 
        G 
his new life is just a bust 
         D 
he ain't trying to change nobody 
        C           D       G 
he just trying real hard to adjust