A Call To Arms For Hippies

[G]It's the year 2009
And we[D] are living in dangerous times
[Em]We should learn from the hippies, and why the movement failed:
Hippies don't[C] run for government and politicians don't [D]inhale.                       [G]

[G]A long time ago in a time cal[D]led the 60's,
[Em]People thought pop music was going to chang[C]e the world.[D]                 [G]
[G]They said things like 'All you need is love',
[D]Took the pregnancy pill, and whatever else they could get hold of,
[Em]Bob Dylan went electric, Sgt Peppers was a hit
And peo[C]ple realised they could change the worl[D]d if they gave a shit!                        [G]

[Em]But people got jaded when Vietnam was i[D]nvaded,
And Ji[G]mi, Janis [D]and Morriso[Em]n assasinated
By the C.I.[C]A.
That was[D] the day
The music died  [G]

[G]Take me back to 1969
[D]When changing the world meant a corny line
Like 'L[Em]ove Is You Need'

Or smoking an ounce of weed
Or t[C]aking LSD at [D]Woodst[G]ock
[G]Now it's the year 2009
[D]And again we're living in dangerous times
We should learn [Em]from the hippies, and why the movement failed:
Hippies don'[C]t run for government and politicians don't [D]inhale.                 [G]

Now its for[G]ty years later.
[D]Things have been greater.
The se[Em]xual revolution left a fishy taste
Of tee[C]nage pregnancies in council estate[D]s.              [G]
And we've still got wa[G]r.
We've still got [D]famine.
A[Em]s opposed to getting out your head to The Grateful Dead

[C]People do it now listening to Radiohead in[D]stead.              [G]

[Em]But everyone’s still jaded.
Now Iraq's been[D] invaded.
The Ga[G]za strip's in Israel's[D] grip,
Even Syr[Em]ia has been raided.
Still we tow[C] the line,
Maybe now[D]'s the time
To bring the music[C] back to [D]life.      [G]

[G]Take me back to 1969
[D]When changing the world meant a corny line
Like 'L[Em]ove Is You Need'

Or smoking an ounce of weed
Or t[C]aking LSD at [D]Woodst[G]ock
[G]Now it's the year 2009
[D]And again we're living in dangerous times
We should learn [Em]from the hippies, and why the movement failed:
Hippies don'[C]t run for government and politicians don't [D]inhale.                 [G]

Now everyone’[Em]s still jaded.
And the hipp[D]ies have all traded
Free love in for a[G] stable job an[D]d like their bell bottoms they've [Em]faded
How did it go t[C]his far.
Remember who yo[D]u are,
And give the music C[C].P.R.   [D]          [G]

[G]Take me back to 1969
[D]When changing the world meant a corny line
Like 'L[Em]ove Is You Need'

Or smoking an ounce of weed
Or t[C]aking LS[D]D at W[G]oodstock
[G]Now it's the year 2009
[D]And again we're living in dangerous times
We should learn [Em]from the hippies, and why the movement failed:
Hippies don'[C]t run for government and politicians (Execp[D]t Barack Obama that one time in

college) don't inhale.   [G]