OKEEFE DANNY - "good time charlies got the blues" Tablature

Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 17:11:21 -0800
From: Reggie Kenner <redgmail@lightspeed.net>
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 ...
C
I hear ...
D7
There ain't a ...
G
Everybody'l ....


Some caught a freight, ...

Refrain:
G
Some gotta ....
C D7
Some gotta ....
G
Good time ....

My crazy heart keeps .....

I've got my pills to ....


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.