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