Hippie Boy Songtext / Lyric

I was walking down the street the other day
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A sight came before my eyes
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It was a little hippie boy I must have been twice his size
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His appearence typied his strange breed
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Gaudy clothers long stringy hair hanging down
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I'd seen perhaps a thousand in my early trips to town
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As he walked on beside me on down the block
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I noticed no unpleasing smell

He might have been on the weed or even LSD
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But if he was I couldn't tell
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So we walked together that way through this neighborhood
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Finally he turned around to me
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And he said friend we're a million miles apart
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But you know something we can enjoy the sunshine and the weather
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So why don't we put our differences aside and just talk to each other
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You see this box beneath my arm to you it's plain, it has no charm
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But to someone dearest to my heart this box has played a tragic part
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This little one can't tell you himself about his life and how he died

But if anyone else could speak for him I guess I'm qualified
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This boy was in Chicago he didn't know why he was there
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He was with his family and friends and he didn't really care
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You might have been one of those who saw the struggle there on your
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television screen
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The tragic thing is so much else happened
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that no one else could have seen
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A stranger handed this boy a dollar to do a simple chore
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To carry a package to a nearby hotel
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And when he returned he'd get two more
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But when he came back he sort of lost his way walking thru the crowd

One of them things you ask yourself, how the Lord allowed
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But when he was found he was like he is now, dreaming sweet and still
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And in his little hand was a crumpled dollar bill
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Now you can take that dollar, get four cents on it compound it
quarterly
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At any downtown bank
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So they can back some hot new tank or atom bomb
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Well what I'm going to tell you now, you can stay or you can leave
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You kind of listened to my story so far but just one more thing
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It's the same for any hippie, bum or hillbilly out on the street
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Just remember this little boy and never carry more than you can eat
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Now could you help us sing this song, please
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There will be peace in the valley for him now we pray
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I will think of the little hippie boy that way




Copyright @ 1968 Irving Music Inc.(BMI)
From The Flying Burrito Brothers "Gilded Palace Of Sin"
A & M Records