>Maybe it IS a hippie van, still...so, does that make me a > Hippie, still? 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 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 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 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. -------------- Original message -------------- From: Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET> > This has puzzled me. > > I was one, a hippie. Kinda proud of it, actually. Hung out with the > counter culture, got beat over the head by the cops at Century City during > the one war protest I attended, went to the Monterey Pop Festival...in my > '57 36hp South African splittie. Vanagons were not gonna be produced for > another what, 12-15 years when the Hippie movement was happening. When the > Vanagon came along, all the hippies already shed their bellbottoms and had > real jobs, families and mortgages.. > I've had children call my '84 a "Hippie Van" a few times > recently...Sheesh! > I remember when one of my buddies came back from California in his > *almost* brand new Bay window bus...All us "Hippies" kinda laughed at > him....but when it came time to go rock climbing or kayaking, we always took > Harry's bus, not the old beater split window hippie vans...And his would > start at -40 f, so he always got to drive us to work during the cold spells > in Wyoming. > I guess to an outsider, one VW van is much like another...Come to think of > it, my present van does sort of feel similar to my 57, and I do sometimes > live in it..Maybe it IS a hippie van, still...so, does that make me a > Hippie, still? > Don Hanson |
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