From the recording David and Lezlie
Lyrics
The Orphan Club (capo on 2nd fret, in A)
D Am G D
Those wild kids of the 60s, we’re pretty settled now in our ways.
We’re not moving so fast or talking so loud as in our glory days.
But the eating is good, got a comfortable routine. We can’t really complain.
It’s far out to be living in the future, but there’s one thing no one explained.
Our parents that we outraged back then were getting older, too.
All the arguments, all the reunions, couldn’t prepare us for the sober truth.
C G D
We’re in the Orphan Club now.
We’re in the Orphan Club now.
And there’s no place to lay these burdens down.
Cause we’re in the Orphan Club now.
Most of us never talk about the times that we burned out,
And went back home, patched our jeans and tried to sort it all out.
The daring adventures, the movements, and the rhetoric on fire,
Were easier to for most of us with that safety net under the wire.
So now each year some lose our parents to a slowly moving train.
And we become like orphans, never going home again.
Refrain
Bridge
D2 A7, -3 G6 D
I’m running though the neighborhood. I can hear her call my name.
I say, “See ya later” to my friends, and head for home again.
D2 A7,-3 G6 A2,6
I slide in the door as shadows turn blue. “Supper’s waiting on you.”
Vocal refrain
Refrain
Words and music by David B. Hakan
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