Tom: C
Introdução:
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Why must every generation think their folks are so square?
G C
And no matter where their heads are they know moms ain't there?
C Dm
Cause I swore when I was small that I'd remember when
G C
I knew whats wrong with them that I was smaller then.
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Determined to remember all the cardinal rules,
G C
Like sun showers are legal grounds for cutting school.
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I know I have forgotten maybe one or two,
Dm G C
And I hope that I recall them all before the baby's due,
Dm G C
And I know hell have a question or two.
F G C Em
Like "Hey Pop, can I go ride my Zoom?"
Am G C Em
"It goes two hundred miles an hour suspended on balloons".
F G C Em
"And can I put a droplet of this new stuff on my tongue,
Am Dm
"And imagine frothing dragons while you sit and wreck your lungs?
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And I must be permissive, understanding of the younger generation.
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Then I'll know that all Ive le arned my kid assumes,
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And all my deepest worries must be his cartoons,
C
And still I'll try to tell him all the things I've done
G C
Related to what he can do when he becomes a man,
Dm G C
And still hell stick his fingers in the fan.
F G C Em
And "Hey, Pop, my girlfriends only three,
Am G C Em
"Shes got her own videophone and she's taking L.S.D.,
F G C Em
"And now that were best friends she wants to give a bit to me.
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"But what's the matter Daddy, how come youre turning green?
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"Can it be that you cant live up to your dreams?