Camper Van Beethoven - Good Guys And Bad Guys guitar chord

"Good Guys and Bad Guys"

by Camper van Beethoven (1986)

from the LP / CD _the_third_album_

Pitch-A-Tend CD PITCH 02

[This CD includes the EP _Vampire_Can_Mating_Oven_]

The repeated motif (usually carried by the organ

and/or fiddle) can be played on the guitar as

follows:

E-------------|------------------|-----------

B-------------|------------------|-----------

G--------2----|-2--2--1----------|-----------

D--2--4-----4-|----------4--2--4-|-2---------

A-------------|------------------|-----2-----

E-------------|------------------|-----------

VERSE

[A]There are[D] good guys and there are[E] bad guys

[A] And there are [D] crooks and criminals [E]

[A] And there are [D] doctors and there are [E] lawyers

[A] And there are [D] folks like you and me [E]

CHORUS

[D] So just get high while the radio's on [A] [E]

[D] And just relax and sing a song [A] [E]

[D] And drive your car up on the lawn [A] [E]

And let me [D] play your gui [E] tar

SECOND VERSE

This here verse is for the people in Russia

Though it is a long long ways away

They couldn't hear this song in Russia

Or couldn't understand the words anyway

REPEAT CHORUS

iNSTRUMENTAL VERSE (CHEESY ORGAN AND VIOLIN LEAD)

THIRD VERSE

So Just be glad you live in America

Just relax and be yourself

'Cause if you didn't live here in America

You'd probably live somewhere else

Repeat Chorus

Repeat instrumental verse

Instrumental verse (mandolin and violin) fade out

Transcribed by Keith Spurgeon

Spurgeon@is2.nyu.edu