This song is absolutely amazing, for me its about how right now is 'the goodle days' and
people spend too much time worrying about how the whole world is fucked to ever enjoy
while its here.
The intro stuff is basically the banjo in Bm pentatonic.
Verse 1:
DD
One day about twenty-five years from now,
GA
When we've all grown old from a-wondering how,
F#mBm
Oh we'll all sit down at the city dump,
EA
And talk about the Goodle Days.
F#mBm
Oh you'll pass the joint and I'll pass the wine,
GA
And anything good from a-down the line.
F#mBm
A lot of good things went down one time,
GD
Back in the Goodle Days.
Chorus:
F#mBm
And the Good Old Days are past and gone.
GA
A lot of good people have done gone on.
F#mBm
That's my life when I sing this song about
GD
Back in the Goodle Days
( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/john_hartford/back_in_the_goodle_days_crd.html )
Verse 2:
DD
Sometimes I get to thinkin' that we're almost done,
GA
And there ain't nothin' left that we can figure out.
F#mBm
And I guess it must have seemed a lot more like that
EA
Back in the Goodle Days,
F#mBm
But when ya gotta go, ya gotta go.
GA
There's always somebody don'tcha know,
F#mBm
A-hangin' round a-sayin' "Well I told you so",
GD
Back in the Goodle Days.
Chorus
Verse 3:
DD
Oh we'll all join hands and we'll gather round,
GA
When that old guitar starts to make that sound.
F#mBm
A lot of good things went down downtown,
EA
Back in the Goodle Days.
F#mBm
Squeezin' love with the people that we hadn't even met,
GA
Out for anything that we could get.
F#mBm
Oh we did it then and we'll do it yet,
GD
Back in the Goodle Days.
Chorus
End.