Blame it On The Baby Boomers
Words and Music Pat Drummond
Dateline: Tamworth RSL

Consumers, Baby Boomers
personal computers
Tell me that the world's gone mad
People were happy, people stayed married
when you were just a lad
Well, perhaps that's true,
but you've forgotten one or two
things about those good old days
Like a depression, Fascism and a few World Wars
that set that world ablaze

Chorus: Now you can blame it on the Baby Boomers
Weep for the power you lack
You can tell me that this world was a better place
but that will not bring it back
You can place your faith in the old songs
if they somehow help you cope
You can look to the past for comfort
But it will never ever bring you hope
You can Blame It on the Baby Boomers x 3
But it will never ever bring you hope

Rock and Rap and racket, Kids in satin jackets,
Decent folks are terrorised
There's fear and loathing in the Old Folks Home
and a world you don't recognise
You say this world was safer but I hear there were places
in 'the Forties' on a Friday night
When 'Good ol' Boys' in sheets
were out in the streets
beating anyone who was not white

Chorus

You can blame it on the Baby Boomers
You can tell us that we got it wrong
but I would rather see a President who 'bonked' his secretary
than one who dropped an atom bomb
You can't blame that on the Baby Boomers (not yet) x 3

The child of a smile is another smile
and everything you do
goes around and around
in this circle of life
till it comes right back to you
So if you can't find anything you like
in this world your living in these days
Well, it's the one that you built
through the things you instilled
in those children that you raised

And you can't blame it on the Baby Boomers
You can weep for the power you lack
You can tell me that this world was a better place
but it isn't coming back
You can tell me that it's easy for me to say
I'll look back as I grow old
Well, yes I will...
but I'll be looking back at the mistakes I made
And I'll be looking to my children for hope

Yeah, you can blame it on the Baby Boomers
but in the end
It's all about hope.

 

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