tweeter was a boy scout til he went to viet nam

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

and found out the hard way, nobody gives a damn

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. there are few songs with more

quotable quotes in them, I believe

[abq e streeter]

2. great, and to my mind, affectionate, parody of Springsteen

coincidentally, I just ( and I mean within the hour) had a conversation about The Willburys .

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. I don't think they meant

affection, iirc it was an outright dis because the boss would not join the wilburys

still, a great song fo sho

[abq e streeter]

6. could be; never heard about Bruce being asked to join...

I always assumed there was nothing mean spirited in the parody; not that I could hear anyway...could very easily be wrong I guess....either way, a great song and I thought all the Springsteen references were pretty funny .

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Good tune.

[Doc_Technical]

5. A song from 25 years ago.

Old Hippie by the Bellamy Brothers

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 gets 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

Chorus:
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

Chorus

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

Chorus