HIPPO STOMP live Steppenwolf 1970 - 4/4 Chords

_ _ Well, Hippostob seems to suggest that it's about the animal, obviously, but it's actually an abbreviation for [G] hypocrite.
And as the first verse states, there's a lot of people who'll get up on a soapbox and say, I know the way.
And there's a lot of clowns who will follow anybody like that.
And by the same token, if somebody uses any kind of honesty and says, I don't really know what it's all about, but I'm trying,
you know, he'll be just sort of, nobody wants to pay attention to him because he's not setting any kind of example.
And so really, when it gets to the part where it's, you know, starts to sound as though it's about the animal,
it's only a comparison between the fact that, you know, all of us have a little bit of hypocrisy in us,
and we're all sort of just floating around, sliding around in the water and the river and so forth,
hoping that we can grasp onto something.
It's essentially [Bm] a song that's not really that deep or meaningful.
It's just a very simple statement that despite the fact that we all have a certain amount of hypocrisy in us,
we've got to live together somehow.
So if we realize that about one another, it'll be a lot easier.
_ Climb out of the mud.
Right.
Hopefully.
Those people who are hypocrites, it's going to hit them the hardest.
If they know who they are.
If, right, [D] if they're aware of it.
If they don't, I hope the song will point it out to them.
_ _ _ [B] Hey, [D] you're tired and you're [A] feeling blue.
[E] If you think you're cool or [D] straight, [A] then say I lost [E] my way.
_ Nobody [D] will know the truth.
[E] But if you don't mean to [D] care, then still [A] say I'm your only.
[E] _ _ _ [D] Somebody's in a [F#] far off place [A] because of [G#m] you.
_ [A] _ We're all a little [E] slow [A] down.
Sometimes [E] we can't.
That's the [A] ground.
[E] Like people standing in the [A] water.
[E] Somehow we're stumbling [A] around.
[E] You stop and watch [A] me.
Why [E] are you around?
You're not [A] wrong.
You [E] have to decide.
[A] _ [E] What's the head for?
So [D] let me answer [B] you.
[A] Let me tell [B] you the truth.
[F] That's how I feel [Am] when I'm down. _ _
_ [F] _ _ Sometimes [Am] I wonder. _
_ [F] _ You see me.
[Am] Come [F] around.
_ But you just [Am] point to stare.
_ [G] _ [F] _ _ More [Am] than hear.
_ _ [F] _ _ Somewhere.
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Down.
_ _ [F] And when you find it.
_ Teach you.
I'm lost.
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_ _ _ [F] Just because we live [Am] together.
We don't have to [C] like each [F] other.
So please don't fall [Am] asleep on me again.
_ _ [C] _ Nobody.
[Am] Nobody.
Nobody knows for [F] sure.
Just might never [Am] wake up from a dream.
_ [F] Hey.
_ [Am] Let me tell you.
Oh.
[F] _ Let me show you around [Am] the reservation.
_ _ I know my way around these parts.
I've been in there long [F] enough.
I even have taste.
[Am] Any indication. Hello. Januar.
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_ you should go to [D] say.
It's [A] a lot.
_ [E] _ Nobody [D] will know. _
_ [E] _ I don't believe you, but I can [D] still [A] say I'm your [E] man.
_ Somebody [D] will fall [F#m] just because [G#m] it's free.
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_ [E] Early in [A] the [E] morning, late at night.
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Somebody [E] seems to know [A] just [E] how the state works right.
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[E] All the time I come around [A] the corner, [E] somebody's looking out my [A] door.
[E] Each little human like a [A] hound, I'll grab a snack [E] and take them on [A] down.
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