this is not a write
that's meant to be poetry
waxing poetically

so if it don't rhyme
i guess it just be time
for no poetry
from me
hope you can see

us old hippie's
back from the 60's

we did some good
we did some bad
we did what we could
to deliver us from what we had

a world that was not Reality
a world that be in the 1950's

Elvis the pelvis
jerry Lee
rock-n-n-roll
that's what it be
Rollin' Stones
and others's unknown
The Beatles

rock-n-roll
and sex
hey what came next

smokin' dope
group hugs
new hope
same old bugs
same old chug-a-lugs

yeah, we sought out
a new Reality
but what it is is what we be
didn't seem to be nuthin'
to shout about
'till we found out

Reality is what it be

"make love not
not war"
yeah,
that went so far
then it was gone
just an old song
gone wrong

an old hippie i be
an old hippie i am
damn

'cause now is see
what drugs & booze
cost me
& what they can do's
to you
and what you has to lose
bein' an old hippie

i got
2 kid's on pot
but they mean alot
and 1 in re-hab
after bein'in jail
couldn't make his bail
man. did i fail

what a story
i could tell
oh well
why worry

just roll me one
pour me another
oh brother
then i'm done

just an old hippie
yippie-
kye-yeah

what else can this old hippie say