He turned 45 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 backyard by the fence
He's consuming what he's growing
Nowadays in self-defense
He gets out there in the twilight zone
Sometime when it just don't make no sense
He gets off on country music
Calls disco-lifting calls
He's got young friends in the new wave
But he's got a lot of friends
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
Yeah, he's an old hippie
And he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he *** on to the new
He's an old hippie
This 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 60s
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
Yeah, he's an old hippie
And he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he *** on to the new
He's an old hippie
This 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 jogging around
He's just trying to change nobody
Sure is glad he quit the hard roads
Cause him and his kind
Get more endangered every day
And pretty soon the species
Will just up and fade away
Like the smoke from that torpedo
Just up and fade away
Yeah, he's an old hippie
And he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he *** on to the new
He's an old hippie
This new life is just a bust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust
Yeah, he ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust
Well, he's just trying real hard to adjust