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

  Cmaj7
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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  question  or  two                             Like,

Chorus:

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Hey,       pop, can I go ride my zoom?
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It goes two hundred miles an hour, 
C        C/B    Am
Suspended on balloons
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And can I put a droplet of this new stuff on my tongue?
    Dm                                 D7
And imagine frothing dragons while you sit and wreck your lungs?
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And I must be permissive,
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Understanding of the younger generation

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    Cmaj7
And then I'll know that all I've learned
   Dm7
My kid assumes
    G7
And all my deepest worries
        Cmaj7
Must be his cartoons,
    Cmaj7
And still I'll try to tell him
        Dm7 
All the things I've done
G7
Relating to what he can do
     Cmaj7
When he becomes a man
    Dm7
And still, he'll stick his fingers in the fan.

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And hey,        pop, my girlfriend's only three,
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She's got her own videophone,
          C     C/B  Am
And she's taking LSD
    F                   G
And now that we're best friends,
             C      C/B    Am
She wants to give a bit to me
    Dm
But what's the matter, daddy,
D7
How come you're turning green?
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Can it be that you can't live up to your dreams?

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