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[Verse]
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[Verse 1]
A                       G
My hippie boy don't want to* be a man
A                       G
My hippie boy don't want to understand
A               G               A        G
My hippie boy lives in a volkswagon van

A                       G
My hippie boy don't don't know how to communicate
A                       G
Says he knows love that knows no hate
A                       G                       C     Bb
My hippie boy leaves his life up to fate   (Break)
A               G               A               G
... yeah he's my hippie boy


[Verse 2]
A                       G
My hippie boy don't know his* own feelings
A                       G
Wants to draw flowers on my ceiling
A                       G               A     G
I think my hippies boy's trying to do me in

A                       G
My hippie boy don't don't follow the commandments
A                       G
Don't follow law, he don't follow government
A                       G                       C                    C
My hippie boy wants to start his own settlement (his own settlement)
A               G            A  G
...yeah he's my hippie boy


[Chorus]
    D   G       C
And he said "come sit beside me
D                  G            C
And tell me 'bout the things you adore
D       G        C
And please don't remind me that
D               G            C          Bb
I am not the boy you'd hoped for..."

[Switch to electric, heavy sound]
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A  G


[Verse 3]
A                       G
My hippie boy won't get up *off his ass
A                       G
He don't care if he fail or if he pass
A                       G               A           G
My hippie boy ... I know he's been smoking grass
A                       G
My hippie boy don't ever know where to begin
A                       G
He says he wasn't put on this earth to fit it
A                       G                       C                               C
My hippie boy got his mama sticking up for him (she’s always sticking up for him)
A               G               A               G
... yeah he's my hippie boy


[Chorus]
    D   G       C
And he said "come sit beside me
D                  G            C
And tell me 'bout the things you adore
D       G        C
And please don't remind me that
D               G            C
I am not the boy you'd hoped for...
    D           G                       C               Bb
No, daddy, that I have not become what you hoped for”

[Interlude]
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A  G
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A  G


[Verse 4]
A                       G
My hippie boy left our lives *to join a band
A                       G
Says his band plays throughout the land
A                       G               A          G
My hippie boy bought his mom a car for 20 grand
A                       G
They say he's putting our town up on the map
A                       G
The mayor called this morning for a photograph
A                       G                       C     C
Now he kids are asking me for my autograph
A               G               A      G
... because of my hippie boy

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