Okeefe, Danny - Good Time Charlies Got The Blues guitar chord

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Subject: Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues by Danny O'Keefe

I looked everywhere for the lyrics to this tune and finally someone sent

them to me. It is a great tune played with a little steady bass strum and

easy finger-picking.

As the person who sent the lyrics said of the refrain...There's sort of a

universal truth there somewhere.

Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues

By

Danny O'keefe

G

Everybody's gone away

C

I hear they're moving to LA

D7

There ain't a soul I know around

G

Everybody'l leaving town

Some caught a freight, some took a plane

Catch the sunshine, leave the rain

They say this town'll waste your time

I guess they know, it's wasting mine

Refrain:

G

Some gotta win

C D7

Some gotta lose

G

Good time Charlie's got the blues

My crazy heart keeps telling me

You're not a kid at thirty-three

Play around you lose your wife

Play too long you lose your life

I've got my pills to ease the pain

Ain't found nothing to ease the rain

Someday I'd like to settle down

But everybody's leaving town

Since I can't figure out how to draw the tab

The whole song is a finger picking strum from G (Alternating the E and D

strings for the bass line)

Hammering on the D and B strings (to Am7 moving your bass line up to the

Dand G strings)

Moving your Am7 up 2 frets adding the B string between beats with the Dand

G strings

Hammering on back at Am7 with the D and B strings (bass still on the D&G

strings)

Back to G and the original bass line.

You can follow this strum (if you can follow it at all) to the last line of

both the verses and the refrain

where it goes to D7 and the Gand B strings slide up 2 frets and back down

to D7

play the Gstring open

Hammer on the D

and Back to The original bass strum at G

I make it sound harder than it is. It is a basic finger picking strum.