Have A Good Time


written and performed by Paul Simon
from "Still Crazy After All These Years."
Transcribed by Erik Strom.



Bb                  Eb
Yesterday it was my birthday

  Bb                        F7
I hung one more year on the line

  Bb      
I should be depressed

   Eb       Edim
My life's a mess

        Bb/F          F    
But I'm having a good time


               Bb                    Eb9
 Oo, I've been loving and loving and loving

      Bb                     F7 
I'm exhausted from loving so well

  Bb        
I should go to bed

Eb9   Edim
But a voice in my head

     Bb/F F                   
Says      "Ah, what the hell"

             Bb   
 Have a good time

Eb             Bb   
   Have a good time
F             Bb   
  Have a good time
Eb             Bb   
   Have a good time



F     Bb                       Eb
  Paranoia strikes deep in the heartland

      Bb                 F7  
But I think it's all overdone

  Bb                    Eb         Edim
Exaggerating this and exaggerating that

     Bb/F          F   
They don't have no fun


          Bb                       Eb9
I don't believe what I read in the papers

        Bb                     F7   
They're just out to capture my dime

Bb        
I ain't worrying

Eb9         Edim
And I ain't scurrying;

    Bb/F          F    
I'm having a good time


             Bb   
 Have a good time

Eb             Bb   
   Have a good time

F             Bb   
  Have a good time

Eb             Bb   
   Have a good time
F           Bb                   Eb     
  Maybe I'm laughing my way to disaster

Bb                     F7  
Maybe my race has been run

Bb                     Eb      Edim
Maybe I'm blind to the fate of mankind

    Bb/F        F     
But what can be done?

   Bb                         Eb9
So God bless the goods we was given

    Bb                     F7 
And God bless the U. S. of A.

    Bb                     Eb9   Edim
And God bless our standard of  livin'

    Bb/F              F 
Let's keep it that way

                          Bb
And we'll all have a good time



Repeat and fade:
Eb9             Bb   
    Have a good time

F7             Bb   
   Have a good time

Eb9             Bb   
    Have a good time

F              Bb   
   Have a good time



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