Chords with lyrics
🎸 Intro:
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🎸 Verse 1:
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Twenty minutes south of a Nashville town
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There’s a boy ridin’ on a bike
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Grass-stained tee and his scraped-up knees
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From an older brother backyard fight
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Only thing he loves is his mama
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And playing catch with his dad
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Can’t wrap his mind around ever needing
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Anything more than that
🎸 Chorus:
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But meanwhile in Carolina
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There’s a girl in a princess dress
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Running through the kitchen
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And dancing on her bed
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Two stories God is painting
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One day, He will combine ’em
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That boy from Tennessee’s
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Never crossed her mind yet
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But ten hours away
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She’s growing up beside him
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Meanwhile in Carolina
🎸 Verse 2:
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Boy grows up writing songs about love
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Kind he only knows at sixteen
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Whether in-between classes or baseball practice
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He’s thinking ’bout girls it seems
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And there’s a wonderin’ about forever
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A augmentedA prayer he always prays
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And in a beach town by the water
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Is this one that sounds the same
🎸 Chorus:
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‘Cause meanwhile in Carolina
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There’s a girl with her best friends
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Talking about Prince Charming
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Planning forever in their heads
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Two stories God is painting
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One day, He will combine ’em
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That boy from Tennessee’s
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Every dream in her mind, but
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She’s just waiting on
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The day he comes to find her
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Meanwhile in Carolina
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Yeah, meanwhile in Carolina
🎸 Bridge:
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Meanwhile in Tennessee
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Every turn, he learns something
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About what it’d take
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To keep her when he finds her
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Then God lets him in on the secret
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He’s been hiding
🎸 Chorus:
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That meanwhile in Carolina
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There’s a girl with eyes of green
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That’s everything and more
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Than my mind could ever dream
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Two stories God was painting
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That day that He combined ’em
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That boy from Tennessee
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Can’t believe how they lined up
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That girl he was looking for
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That whole time was
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Meanwhile in Carolina
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Meanwhile in Carolina