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Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
Chord diagramE MajorE


Verse 1:
Chord diagramB minorBm                Chord diagramA augmentedA             Chord diagramE MajorE
Rose lived on the south side of town
          Chord diagramG+G               Chord diagramD MajorD           Chord diagramA augmentedA
Until her landlord showed up with two hundred dollar bills
  Chord diagramB minorBm         Chord diagramA augmentedA              Chord diagramE MajorE
Chord diagramA augmentedA notice of eviction on the other hand
              Chord diagramG+G             Chord diagramD MajorD             Chord diagramA augmentedA              Chord diagramE MajorE
Now she don't live there no more and everyone thinks she drowned
Verse 2:
Chord diagramB minorBm            Chord diagramA augmentedA                   Chord diagramE MajorE
I pulled into Mecklenburg on them trains
        Chord diagramG+G               Chord diagramD MajorD                 Chord diagramA augmentedA
Into a station that was flooded when they opened up the dams
    Chord diagramB minorBm            Chord diagramA augmentedA                Chord diagramE MajorE
And broke their connections to the railway lines
              Chord diagramG+G              Chord diagramD MajorD                Chord diagramA augmentedA
So they could blast into the quarry for every load of granite
         Chord diagramE MajorE
We got a ton, don't worry


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


Chorus:
Chord diagramE MajorE
I shouldh've told him that you were the one for me
Chord diagramA augmentedA                 Chord diagramG+G
But I lied, but I lied
   Chord diagramE MajorE                                              Chord diagramA augmentedA
To most any drifter who's looking for work is too weird
           Chord diagramG+G            Chord diagramC majorC                Chord diagramD MajorD
I met your sister and I married her in July
       Chord diagramA augmentedA          Chord diagramG+G         Chord diagramC majorC        Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramE MajorE
But if only to be closer to you, Caroline
Verse 4:
Chord diagramB minorBm        Chord diagramA augmentedA                 Chord diagramE MajorE
Percy and I moved down the street
         Chord diagramG+G               Chord diagramD MajorD             Chord diagramA augmentedA
Until we lost two pretty girls one was seven and one was three
Chord diagramB minorBm           Chord diagramA augmentedA                  Chord diagramE MajorE
Alderman and Caroline owned the house right up the hill
         Chord diagramG+G                 Chord diagramD MajorD                   Chord diagramA augmentedA            Chord diagramE MajorE
Where we laid those babies down so they could still see our house


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


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


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


Outro:
Chord diagramE MajorE

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