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Good Time Charlies Got The Blues by Danny Okeefe
Good Time Charlies Got The Blues
INTRO:
G G
e|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
B|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
G|---0--------------|---0--------------|---0--------------|---0--------------|
D|---0---2--0-----0-|---0---2--0-----0-|---0---2—-0-----0-|---0---2--0------0|
A|-------------0H2--|-------------0H2--|-------------0H2--|-------------0H2—-|
E|-3---3---3--------|-3---3---3--------|-3---3---3--------|-3---3---3--------|
2nd Guitar
e|------------3\2---|------------------|-----------3/2----|------------------|
B|---------------3--|---------------3--|---------------3--|---------------3--|
G|------------------|-----------4\5----|------------------|----------4\5-----|
D|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
A|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
E|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
G C
e|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
B|------------------|------------------|---1--------------|---1--------------|
G|---0--------------|---0--------------|---0---2--0-----0-|---0---2--0-----0-|
D|---0---2--0-----0-|---0---2--0-----0-|-------------0H2--|-------------0H2--|
A|-------------0H2--|-------------0H2--|-3---3---3--------|-3---3---3--------|
E|-3---3---3--------|-3---3---3--------|------------------|------------------|
2nd guitar
e|---------3/2-3/2--|------------------|--------8/7-8/7---|------------------|
B|----------------3-|------------------|----------------8-|------------------|
G|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
D|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
A|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
E|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
There's not a soul I know around
D7
e|-----2---0---2----|------------------|------------------|------------------|
B|-----1-1---1---1--|------------------|------------------|------------------|
G|---2------------2-|----0-------------|---0--------------|------------------|
D|-0----------------|-0H2—2P0-------0--|-------2--0-------|------------------|
A|------------------|---------2-0H2----|-------------0H2--|------------------|
E|------------------|------------------|-3---3---3--------|-3----------------|
2nd guitar
e|------------------|------------------|---3p2-3p2—3-3p2--|------------------|
B|------------------|------------------|----------3-----3-|------------------|
G|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
D|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
A|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
E|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
Some caught a freight, some caught a plane
Find the sunshine, leave the rain
They said this town'll waste your time
I guess they're right, it's wasting mine
Refrain:
Some gotta win
Cm D7
Some gotta lose
G
Good time Charlie's got the blues
SOLO:
G C
e|—3H5-3-3H5-3------|------------------|3-----3-----------|------------------|
B|------------5P3---|3H5-----------4/5—|--4/5—--5P3--1H3--|1-----------------|
G|----------------5-|------------------|------------------|------------------|
D|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
A|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
E|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
D7 G
e|------------------|------------------|5H7-5-------3-----|------------------|
B|-1/3-3--5-5/7--7-5|-5/7--------------|-----7P5—3H5-5P3-3|------------------|
G|------------------|------------------|--------5-------4-|------------------|
D|-2/4-4--5—5/7—-7-5|-5/7--------------|------------------|-5----------------|
A|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
E|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
You know my heart keeps telling me
You're not a kid at thirty-three
You play around you lose your wife
You play too long you lose your life
I've got my pills to ease the pain
Can't find a thing to ease the rain
I'd love to try and settle down
But everybody's leaving town
P = Pull off
H = Hammer on
/ = Slide up
\ = Slide down
G = 320003
C = x32010
D7 = xx0212
Cm = X35543
Kind of a finger pickin' blues shuffle.
I beat the G bass note softer on the
second and third count to keep the beat.
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version 2
G
Everybody's gone away.
C
Said they're moving' to L.A.
D7
There's not a soul I know around.
G
Everybody's leaving' town!
G
Some caught a freight. Some caught a plane.
C
Find the sunshine, leave the rain?
D7
They said this town's a waste time.
G
I guess they're right, it's wasting mine!
G Am
Some gotta win! Some gotta lose!
D7 G
Good time Charlie's got the blues!
G
You know my heart keeps telling me,
C
You re not a kid at thirty-three.
D7
You play around you'll lose your wife.
G
You play too long you'll lose your life!
G
I ve got my pills to ease the pain,
C
Can t find a friend to ease the rain.
D7
I know I should try and settle down.
G
Everybody s leaving town.
G Am
Some gotta win! Some gotta lose!
D7 G
Good time Charlie's got the blues!
D7 G
Good time Charlie's got the blues!
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version 3
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.
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