G5 It's the year 2009 D5 And we are living in dangerous times E5 We should learn from the hippies, and why the movement failed: C5 D5 G5 Hippies don't run for government and politicians don't inhale. G5 D5 A long time ago in a time called the 60's, E5 C5 D5 G5 People thought pop music was going to change the world. G5 They said things like 'All you need is love', D5 Took the pregnancy pill, and whatever else they could get hold of, E5 Bob Dylan went electric, Sgt Peppers was a hit C5 D5 G5 And people realised they could change the world if they gave a shit! E5 D5 But people got jaded when Vietnam was invaded, G5 D5 E5 And Jimi, Janis and Morrison assasinated C5 By the C.I.A. D5 That was the day G5 The music died G5 Take me back to 1969 D5 When changing the world meant a corny line E5 Like 'Love Is You Need' Or smoking an ounce of weed C5 D5 G5 Or taking LSD at Woodstock G5 Now it's the year 2009 D5 And again we're living in dangerous times E5 We should learn from the hippies, and why the movement failed: C5 D5 G5 Hippies don't run for government and politicians don't inhale. G5 Now its forty years later. D5 Things have been greater. E5 The sexual revolution left a fishy taste C5 D5 G5 Of teenage pregnancies in council estates. G5 And we've still got war. D5 We've still got famine. E5 As opposed to getting out your head to The Grateful Dead C5 D5 G5 People do it now listening to Radiohead instead. E5 But everyone?s still jaded. D5 Now Iraq's been invaded. G5 D5 The Gaza strip's in Israel's grip, E5 Even Syria has been raided. C5 Still we tow the line, D5 Maybe now's the time C5 D5 G5 To bring the music back to life. G5 Take me back to 1969 D5 When changing the world meant a corny line E5 Like 'Love Is You Need' Or smoking an ounce of weed C5 D5 G5 Or taking LSD at Woodstock G5 Now it's the year 2009 D5 And again we're living in dangerous times E5 We should learn from the hippies, and why the movement failed: C5 D5 G5 Hippies don't run for government and politicians don't inhale. E5 Now everyone?s still jaded. D5 And the hippies have all traded G5 D5 E5 Free love in for a stable job and like their bell bottoms they've faded C5 How did it go this far. D5 Remember who you are, C5 D5 G5 And give the music C.P.R. G5 Take me back to 1969 D5 When changing the world meant a corny line E5 Like 'Love Is You Need' Or smoking an ounce of weed C5 D5 G5 Or taking LSD at Woodstock G5 Now it's the year 2009 D5 And again we're living in dangerous times E5 We should learn from the hippies, and why the movement failed: C5 D5 Hippies don't run for government and politicians (Execpt Barack Obama that one time in G5 college) don't inhale.
