Hippie Radio chords by Eric Church

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
C G Am F

Verse 1:
C               F        C
My daddy had a Pontiac on the beige-er side of yellow
     Am    F         G   C
He was a young man then and I was a little fella
                   F            C
I'd play in that bench back seat and listen to the songs get sung
           Am            F           C
He couldn't carry a tune in a bucket but he'd sing at the top of his lungs

Chorus:
C       G        Am    C
Carry on my wayward son on a hippie radio
            Am      G
Songs about the flower babies and the birth of rock and roll
  C   G    Am   C     F          C
And I was band and I would stand and we'd bounce down the road
C            Am        F    C
A boy and his dad in a Pontiac with that hippie radio

Verse 2:
C             F     C
Can't' remember if it was seventeen, maybe eighteen is right
              Am         F       G    C
But I'll never forget those baby blues and the glow of that dashboard light
                       F          C
I'd won her heart the week before and it was hot right from the start
           Am        F         C
I busted her brother Billy's mouth for makin' fun of my car

Chorus 2:
C             Am        C   F  C
It was White Wedding and Rebel Yell on the hippie radio
   C      Am         G
I was Werewolf in London, and she was Lady Marmalade's soul
   C      G        C       F       C
And I'd crank the band, take her hand and we'd pull off back a road
C            Am        F    C
A boy and his girl in a Pontiac, and the hippie radio

Verse 3:
C                   F      C
Four years and seven days from tying cans to the bumper
        Am          F        C
I was pacing a maternity floor, my flower baby was a mother
                      F       C
My hands were shaking as we were leaving, taking our boy home
               Am      F        C
My heart was full and in my head I could hear a long, long song

Chorus 3:
C      G        Am         C
Cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon on the hippie radio
C    Am      G
A-B-C, 1-2-3, don't blink or he'll be gone
  C          Am          F         C
And I took her hand and she just smiled with a look that said "I know"
C                       F     C G
A boy and his dad and a boy and his girl in a Pontiac
C
And the hippie radio