Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues Chords

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Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues by Waylon Jennings is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords A, B7, E and E7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Intro: A B7 E 
		 
E                                           A 
 Everybody's gone away, says they're moving to la, 
                        B7                       E 
there ain't a soul I know around, everybody's leaving town. 

                                  E 
Some caught a freight, some caught a plane, 
   E7                       A 
to find the sunshine, leave the rain. 
                                B7 
They say this town will waste your mind, 
                              E 
must be right, 'cause it wasted mine. 
                          A    B7 
Some got to win, some got to lose, 
                        E         A B7 E 
Good Time Charlie's got the blues.        

                           E                             A                            
My whole heart keeps telling me, you ain no kid at thirty-three, 
                       B7                           E                                           
play around and lose your wife, play too long and lose your life. 

                              E 
I've got my pills to ease the pain, 
            E7               A 
ain't found a thing to reach the rain, 
                            B7 
some time I'd like to try and settle down, 
                      E 
but everybody's leaving town. 

                          A    B7 
Some got to win, some got to lose, 
                        E         A B7 E   
Good Time Charlie's got the blues. 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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100 BPM Andante