Goodbye Carolina Blues tab by Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties

[Verse]

  G            Bm
Goodbye, Carolina. I felt cold and I felt weak.
       Am
I took the midnight bus from Asheville
                 C        G                  C
passed like a ghost through Tennessee. Brushed the Northern edge of Blacksburg. Like your hair off of your
                  F               C
cheeks. I wish I could fall asleep. Half-dead in the window seat-- awake for weeks.


[Interlude]

G Bm C Em D

[Verse]

G                  Bm              Am
Good morning, Manhattan. Stopped a Port Authority. I’ll take the train under the
        C
river; ride the A out to the G.
       G                   C
And I’ll walk along your narrow streets with a dollar cup of coffee, letting it
F
stain my teeth. Two sugars,
  C
a drop of cream. Bittersweet.


[Interlude]

G Bm C Em D


[Verse]

G                      Bm                    Am
God damn I missed you, Brooklyn. Caught my breath here on your streets. I left my winter

coat in Charlotte.
   C             G                   C
I’m cursing at the breeze. I’m hiding out from early March. Read the sign hung in

our lobby. The elevator
F                   C
broke last week. I walk the stairs to 403.


     Em       D     C         Em       D      C
I don’t blame you for changing the locks. I think I’d probably do the same if it
       Em
were me. I’m gathering up the
 D      C               Am              C
courage to knock. I’m not sure what I’m looking for. I don’t know what I want. I
    G
don’t want anything.
       Eb
I don’t want anything.


G                     Bm                  Am
Some college student answers and my heart crash-lands on the floor. He says he sublet

this place last month.
     C           G               C
He never heard of me before. He sees me there collapsing and he opens up the door.
     F
It’s all new furniture.
         C
I barely recognize it anymore.


         Em     D        C      Em      D
He says, I’m sorry, man. I wish that I knew more. I’m not sure exactly what you’re
     C      Em
looking for, but no Diane,
        D       G     C     Am       C      G