Artist: The Lovin' Spoonful
Song: Younger Generation
A simple, sweet song.
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Why must
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every generation think their folks are square?
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And no matter where their heads are, they know moms ain't there Cause I
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swore when I was small, that I'd remember when I
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knew what's wrong with them, that I was smaller then
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Det-
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ermined to remember all the cardinal rules, Like
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sunshowers are legal grounds for cutting school I
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know I have forgotten maybe one or two And I
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hope that I recall them all before the baby's due And I
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know he'll have a (x02210@1)question or two Like,
Chorus:
F (133211@1) F/E (xx2211@1) G7 (320001@1) C (x32010@1) C/B (x2555x@1) AmHey, (x02210@1) pop, can I go ride my zoom?
F (133211@1) GIt (320003@1)goes two hundred miles an hour,
C (x32010@1) C/B (x2555x@1) AmSuspended (x02210@1)on balloons
F (133211@1) G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) C/B (x2555x@1) AmAnd (x02210@1)can I put a droplet of this new stuff on my tongue?
Dm (xx0231@1) D7And (xx0212@1)imagine frothing dragons while you sit and wreck your lungs?
C (x32010@1) C/BAnd (x2555x@1)I must be permissive,
Am (x02210@1) Am/GUnderstanding (302210@1)of the younger generation
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Cmaj7And (x32000@1)then I'll know that all I've learned
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My kid assumes
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Cmaj7And (x32000@1)still I'll try to tell him
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All the things I've done
G7Relating (320001@1)to what he can do
Cmaj7When (x32000@1)he becomes a man
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And still, he'll stick his fingers in the fan.
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F (133211@1) GAnd (320003@1)now that we're best friends,
C (x32010@1) C/B (x2555x@1) AmShe (x02210@1)wants to give a bit to me
DmBut (xx0231@1)what's the matter, daddy,
D7How (xx0212@1)come you're turning green?
F (133211@1) F/E (xx2211@1) F/D (153211@1) F/C (133211@1) G7Can (320001@1)it be that you can't live up to your dreams?
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F/E xx2011 F/C x33211
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