G
too shy to get a date
    C
enlisted in the infantry
   F
spring of ’68
         C
the army taught him how to march
G
stuck him on a jet
        C
had him crawling in a tunnel
F           C
right after tet
C
with a flashlight
G      C
and a 45
           C
It was a long way to go
         G
for a boy named charlie
               C
there were snakes there was jungle
           F
there was all kinds of gnarly
C
fighting somebody
G
everybody called charlie
Am
a mean kind of joke
F                             C
charlie fighting charlie

[Chorus]
     Am
way down in a tunnel
             G           
where the fallen angels dwell
             C
there is a quiet young man
     F
crawling into hell
            C      G     C
with a flashlight and a 45
   Am
charlie fighting charlie
 F
trying to survive
 Am
charlie fighting charlie
F              Dm      F  C  F
just to stay alive

[Verse]
     C
he came back home
  G
drove real fast
     C
a hopped up super sport
  F
six speeds of bad ass
  C
stop light dragging
   G
fastest thing around
  Am                 F
all jacked up and screaming through town
 Am                              G       F
whistling past the grave yard coming undone

[Interlude]
Am   F
Am  F
C  G  C

[Verse]
          C
then he married a good woman
        G
got a black land farm
       C
they had a little girl
  F
daddy’s lucky little charm
        C                     G
got a neighbor who served in wwII
 C
he never said much
  F
always kind of blue
 C
always kind of blue
        G
they'd have a drink or two
   C
charlie and old man
  F
same kind of blue

[Chorus]
     Am
way down in a tunnel
             G            
where the fallen angels dwell
             C
there is a quiet young man
     F
crawling into hell
            C       G    C
with a flashlight and a 45
   Am
charlie fighting charlie
 F
trying to survive
 Am
charlie fighting charlie
F
just to stay alive
Am
charlie fighting charlie
F
trying to survive
Am                             F
charlie fighting charlie

[Chorus]
 F                       Am
he said the only time
 F                       C
he ever felt alive

was crawling through a tunnel
           F          C
with a loaded 45
  Am
charlie fighting charlie
 F
trying to survive
            Am            G         F      C  F
it was the only time he ever felt alive