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Carolina Rain Chords by Ryan Adams

Carolina Rain chords by Ryan Adams

Guitar chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
E


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Outro:
E

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