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Them Hippies Was Right

from No Strings Attached by Those Darn Accordions

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Inspired by the Strawberry Folk Festival near Yosemite, Ca. An amazing event that TDA played in 1995.

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Hippie With a Banjo
© Paul Rogers/ DumDitty Music

Little green beanie on a long haired mop
Red propeller spinning on top
Rainbow colors on a tie-dyed shirt
Two bare feet all covered with dirt

Pickin’ and a scratchin’ out a devil of a tune
Higher than a kite in the afternoon
He’s headin’ this way and he’s wantin’ to jam
I got to disappear from the place I am

Oh, have mercy on me
I gotta run it’s a Hippie with a banjo
It’s like torture to me
Kinda like a skeeter in your ear when you camp, oh
He’s so simple and free
He’s gonna play the damn thing anywhere he can, so
Please have mercy on me
I gotta run it’s a Hippie with a banjo

Now I’ve been to a dentist with a very dull drill
He hammered on my gums, (or, hammered on my thumb) I remember it still
I took a long drive in a very small car
With my Uncle Eddie puffin’ on a big cigar

I spent a whole summer with my Mother in-law
all these things still stick in my craw
But nothing compares to the pain I feel
When I hear the twang of those strings of steel

Chorus

Just when I thought this is the worst that I’ve seen
Here comes his girlfriend with a tambourine

Oh have mercy on me
I gotta run it’s a Hippie with a banjo
Life’s been brutal to me
Don’t make it worse with a hippie with a banjo
Give him a job at sea
How about the fella on a mast yellin’ “Land Ho”
In to a new country
Never let ‘em know you’ve got a Hippie with a banjo
Oh yeah..a Hippie with a banjo
A Hippie with a banjo

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from No Strings Attached, track released September 10, 1996

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San Francisco band Those Darn Accordions make the accordion do things it's never done before and have fun doing it.

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