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From the 60's to the 80's
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As seen (and audio taped from) Alive from Off Center on Public Television.
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from Lenny Bruce to Laurie Anderson.
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from Miss America to Penthouse.
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from Easy Rider to Road Warrior.
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from the New Left to the New Right.
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from Oswald to Hinkley.
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from It was a conspiracy to Taxi Driver made do it.
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from Woodstock to the L A Olympics.
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from Haight-Ashbury to Silicon Valley.
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from Angela Davis to Geraldine Ferraro.
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from VW Bus to BMW.
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from a toke to a toot.
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from long hair to mohawk.
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from the peace sign to We're Number 1.
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from Dr. No to Octopussy.
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from Janis Joplin to Brooke Shields.
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from free love to herpes.
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from psychodelic to pastel.
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from LSD to PC.
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Oh Baby Boomers,
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From hippie to yuppie.
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It just goes to show there is no safety in numbers.
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from the Now Generation to the Then Generation.
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from Jane Fonda to Jane Fonda.
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from Sputnik to Space Shuttle.
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from 2001 to Star Wars
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from Mutually Assured Destruction to Star Wars.
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from stewardesses to flight atendants.
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from spare change to bank machines.
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from high to high-tech.
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from psycotropic to aerobic.
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from bell-bottoms to addidas.
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from water beds to futons.
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from granola to sushi.
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from Che Guevara to Che Parnis
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from organic to gourmet.
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Oh baby boomers, how the times they have achanged,
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from hippie to yuppie,
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Oh baby boomers.
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Do we know what we've witnessed?
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from Saigon to Ho Chi Minh.
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from napalm to agent orange.
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from Martin Luther King to Jesse Jackson.
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from Ban The Bomb to Nuclear Free.
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from the Shaw to the Ayatolla.
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from Patty Hurst to the hostages.
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from Kent State to Granada.
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Oh baby boomers, what have we been?
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I've seen the best minds of my generation become young urban
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professionals, soon to be old urban professionals
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from When I'm 64 to Now that I'm 38.
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from Turn on, tune in, drop out to Drop in anytime.
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from communes to condos.
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from Ed Sullivan to MTV.
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from light shows to videos.
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from We shall overcome to Tie a yellow ribbon.
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from sit-in to jogging.
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from Oh-wow to Awesome.
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from Do the twist to Break dancing.
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from Beatlemania to Mid-life crisis.
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from getting busted to getting audited.
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from Stone to Series.
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from back-pack to Pac-man.
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from Crashpad to Bed and breakfast.
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from hitch-hiking to income averaging.
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from The age of aquarius to Middle age.
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Oh baby boomers, neither wise or precocious,
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but always prosperous.
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from hippie to yuppie, hope we grow old more gracefully.
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