Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Intro:
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Verse 1:
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Rose lived on the south side of town
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Until her landlord showed up with two hundred dollar bills
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A augmentedA notice of eviction on the other hand
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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
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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
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Over easy, she showed me the length of her legs
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But that gold plated cross on her neck it was real
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And you don't get that kind of money from pushing the meal
Chorus:
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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
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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
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Alderman and Caroline owned the house right up the hill
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Where we laid those babies down so they could still see our house
Verse 5:
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Suspicion got the best of old Alderman Haint
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He owned an auto parts store off the interstate
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But the Lord took him home in July
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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
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With a tattoo on his heart that spelled out Caroline
A augmentedA G+G
He was silent, but his rosary
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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
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Where two guys came up, pretty angry and drunk
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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
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In the Carolina rain
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In the Carolina rain
E MajorE
Oh, Caroline
Outro:
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