Younger Generation Chords & Tabs
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 question or two Like,
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Hey, pop, can I go ride my zoom?
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It goes two hundred miles an hour,
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Suspended on balloons
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And can I put a droplet of this new stuff on my tongue?
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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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And then I'll know that all I've learned
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My kid assumes
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And all my deepest worries
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Must be his cartoons,
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And still I'll try to tell him
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All the things I've done
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Relating to what he can do
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When he becomes a man
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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,
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And she's taking LSD
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And now that we're best friends,
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She wants to give a bit to me
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But what's the matter, daddy,
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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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