Chords
Carolina

Key: C

Introduction:

C                                                    Am                    C                                      Am  
     The sweet smell of nighttime         rides on the breeze
C                                    Am                 F                                                      C  
     The river is winding         through the hickory trees
C                                              Am              C                                      Am  
     The redbones are howling         down by Wilson's Bridge
C                                              Am                 F                                            Am  
     The lawmen stand waiting         upon Deadman's    Ridge.
F         C                      G                                              Am  
  Ooh Carolina,         so dark I can't see
F         C                      G                                                      Am  
  Ooh Carolina,      won't you let me go free
C                                            Am         C                                              Am  
  I came here with Lily         a year just last fall
C                                         Am         F                                    C  
  We left her old daddy         back in Donegal
C                                 Am                      C                                                    Am  
  We made us a home place         of Black Mountain stone
C                                                    Am              F                                 Am  
  But one cold winter morning         I woke up alone
F         C                      G                                              Am  
  Ooh Carolina,         so dark I can't see
F         C                      G                                                      Am  
  Ooh Carolina,      won't you let me go free
C                                 Am                 C                                    Am  
  Days full of silence            are so incomplete
C                                      Am         F                                      C  
  Nights without Lily         I took to the streets
C                                                         Am                 C                                            Am  
  And in the streets of Ashville         I channeled my pain
C                                      Am                         F                                            C  
  Til one raging black night            I slept in the rain
D                                      Bm              D                                    Bm  
  I dreamed of a refuge         a red velvet world
D                                                      Bm         G                                      D  
  And I swore my sweet Lily         was on of the girls
D                                      Bm            D                                            Bm  
  I loved her so madly            I loved her so long
D                                      Bm                         G                                                         Bm  
  I woke with my dream girl         but her life was all gone
G         D                      A                                              Bm  
  Ooh Carolina,         so dark I can't see
G         D                      A                                                      Bm  
  Ooh Carolina,      won't you let me go free
D                              Bm                 D                              Bm  
  Love has no boundary         sorrow no end
D                                              Bm                 G                                              D  
  And the lawmen of Ashville      have no mercy in them
G         D                      A                                              Bm  
  Ooh Carolina,         so dark I can't see
G         D                      A                                                      Bm  
  Ooh Carolina,      won't you let me go free
Outro
A                                    Bm  
     Let me reach         Tennessee