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Thread #1128   Message #1449745
Posted By: Jim Dixon
01-Apr-05 - 11:33 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: The Hippie Song-God Damn Hippies
Subject: Lyr Add: HIPPIES JOGGING
I ran across this while searching for the above song:
Copied from http://thebanzai.com/music/williams_lyrics_hippies.php :

HIPPIES JOGGING
(Joe Williams)

Well, I've seen hippies jogging,
Stoned out of their noggins,
Wearing them Birkenstockings down my street.
They got their hippie hairdos flopping
And the veins in their foreheads popping.
It's about the dangdest thing you ever want to see.

See, 'cause hippies ain't supposed to be jogging.
They're supposed to be smoking a bong and
Puffing the magic dragon, or picking their teeth,
Or getting shaky waiting for their drop-off,
Or dilating their eyes 'til they pop off,
So, I don't like jogging hippies, nosiree.

See, now some of them ones I see
Are looking like them freaks on MTV.
It shook my bones so deep that I almost cried.
Nowadays you can't trust nothing,
But I'll tell you jogging hippies something:
Maybe now you can run, but you still can't hide.

See, 'cause what the heck good is a hippie
If he ain't gonna act all trippy?
They're so doped up, they don't know what
Or how they're supposed to be;
And what the heck good is a stereotype
If the people who it is can't get it right?
I mean, the times they are a-changing, yes indeed.

[Sung by Joe Williams on "Joe Williams," Banzai Entertainment CD #1966, 2002.]