Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues:Big John Khatt
And The Highland Blues Band.
Recorded live in Metz, France(with permission)in 1973.

INTRO: G Am7 (x3)                                              

#1.
G                 Am7  D                                   
Everybody's gone away..said they're 
          G
moving to LA.
G                            Am7
There ain't a soul, I know, around..
D                   G    Am7 G
everybody's leaving town.

#2.
G                                  Am7
Some caught a freight, some took a plane..
D                              G
lie in the sunshine, leave the rain.
G                                Am7
They say this town'll waste your time..
D                                   G
I guess they're right, it's wasting mine.

CHORUS:
G          Am7             C                   
Some gotta win..some gotta lose.
D7                          G   Am7 G                               
Good time Charlie's got the blues.
D7                          G    Am7 G
Good time Charlie's got the blues.


(INTERLUDE:) G Am7 D G

#3.
G                               Am7
You know my heart keeps telling me..
D                          G
you're not a kid at thirty-three.
G                         Am7
Play around you lose your wife..
D                               G
you play too long you lose your life.


CHORUS:
G          Am7             C                   
Some gotta win..some gotta lose.
D7                          G   Am7 G                               
Good time Charlie's got the blues.
D7                          G    Am7 G
Good time Charlie's got the blues.


(INTERLUDE:) G Am7 D G

#4.
G                             Am7
I've got my pills to ease the pain..
D                               G   Am7 G
ain't found nothing to ease the rain.
G                          Am7
Someday I'd like to settle down..
D                       G
but everybody's leaving town.

CHORUS:
G          Am7             C                   
Some gotta win..some gotta lose.
D7                          G   Am7 G                               
Good time Charlie's got the blues.
D7                          G    Am7 G
Good time Charlie's got the blues.

OUTRO:
D7                          G    Am7 G
Good time Charlie's got the blues.....(x3)(Fade.)


A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.