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Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 17:11:21 -0800
From: Reggie Kenner
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
Everybody s gone away
I hear they re moving to LA
There ain t a soul I know around
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:
Some gotta win
Some gotta lose
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
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
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.