Carolina Rain chords by Ryan Adams

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
E MajorE


Verse 1:
B minorBm        A augmentedA       E MajorE
Rose lived on the south side of town
     G+G        D MajorD      A augmentedA
Until her landlord showed up with two hundred dollar bills
 B minorBm     A augmentedA       E MajorE
A augmentedA notice of eviction on the other hand
       G+G       D MajorD       A augmentedA       E MajorE
Now she don't live there no more and everyone thinks she drowned

Verse 2:
B minorBm      A augmentedA          E MajorE
I pulled into Mecklenburg on them trains
    G+G        D MajorD         A augmentedA
Into a station that was flooded when they opened up the dams
  B minorBm      A augmentedA        E MajorE
And broke their connections to the railway lines
       G+G       D MajorD        A augmentedA
So they could blast into the quarry for every load of granite
     E MajorE
We got a ton, don't worry


Verse 3:
  B minorBm      A augmentedA      E MajorE
One night at the diner, over eggs
   G+G     D MajorD       A augmentedA
Over easy, she showed me the length of her legs
     B minorBm      A augmentedA      E MajorE
But that gold plated cross on her neck it was real
       G+G        D MajorD     A augmentedA      E MajorE
And you don't get that kind of money from pushing the meal


Chorus:
E MajorE
I shouldh've told him that you were the one for me
A augmentedA         G+G
But I lied, but I lied
  E MajorE                       A augmentedA
To most any drifter who's looking for work is too weird
      G+G      C majorC        D MajorD
I met your sister and I married her in July
    A augmentedA     G+G     C majorC    D MajorD  E MajorE
But if only to be closer to you, Caroline

Verse 4:
B minorBm    A augmentedA         E MajorE
Percy and I moved down the street
     G+G        D MajorD       A augmentedA
Until we lost two pretty girls one was seven and one was three
B minorBm      A augmentedA         E MajorE
Alderman and Caroline owned the house right up the hill
     G+G         D MajorD          A augmentedA      E MajorE
Where we laid those babies down so they could still see our house


Verse 5:
  B minorBm       A augmentedA      E MajorE
Suspicion got the best of old Alderman Haint
      G+G      D MajorD      A augmentedA
He owned an auto parts store off the interstate
    B minorBm      A augmentedA     E MajorE
But the Lord took him home in July
     G+G        D MajorD      A augmentedA      E MajorE
And then Rose spilled the beans on the day that he died and we were in trouble


Chorus:
E MajorE
I shouldh've told him that you were the one for me
A augmentedA         G+G
But I lied, but I lied
E MajorE
Tied up too concrete at the bottom of the quarry
    A augmentedA       G+G         C majorC    D MajorD
With a tattoo on his heart that spelled out Caroline
    A augmentedA        G+G
He was silent, but his rosary
    C majorC      D MajorD
Well it drifted into custody
   A augmentedA             E MajorE
Of a sheriff that was just deputised


Bridge:
  B minorBm  D MajorD      A augmentedA
And I was down at the banquet hall
     G+G     D MajorD     A augmentedA
Where two guys came up, pretty angry and drunk
  B minorBm    D MajorD      G+G    D MajorD      G+G    D MajorD
And I'm still here at the banquet hall, at the banquet hall
     A augmentedA          E MajorE    G+G  D MajorD A augmentedA
Where the gun went off in the Carolina Rain
    E MajorE    G+G  D MajorD A augmentedA
In the Carolina rain
    E MajorE    G+G  D MajorD A augmentedA
In the Carolina rain
  E MajorE
Oh, Caroline


Outro:
E MajorE