Carolina Rain chords by Ryan Adams

Guitar chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)


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

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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