Carolina Rain chords by Ryan Adams

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

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