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Carolina Chords by Robert Earl Keen

Carolina chords by Robert Earl Keen

Guitar chords with lyrics

  • Difficulty: Beginner
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Verse:

C          Am    C        Am
 The sweet smell of nighttime  rides on the breeze
C       Am    F           C
 The river is winding  through the hickory trees
C         Am   C        Am
 The redbones are howling  down by Wilson's Bridge
C         Am    F         Am
 The lawmen stand waiting  upon Deadman's Ridge.



🎸 Chorus:
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F  C     G         Am
 Ooh Carolina,  so dark I can't see
F  C     G           Am
 Ooh Carolina,  won't you let me go free

🎸 Verse:

C         Am  C         Am
 I came here with Lily  a year just last fall
C        Am  F       C
 We left her old daddy  back in Donegal
C       Am     C          Am
 We made us a home place  of Black Mountain stone
C          Am   F       Am
 But one cold winter morning  I woke up alone

🎸 Chorus:

F  C     G         Am
 Ooh Carolina,  so dark I can't see
F  C     G           Am
 Ooh Carolina,  won't you let me go free

🎸 Verse:

C       Am    C       Am
 Days full of silence   are so incomplete
C        Am  F        C
 Nights without Lily  I took to the streets
C           Am    C         Am
 And in the streets of Ashville  I channeled my pain
C        Am     F         C
 Til one raging black night   I slept in the rain

🎸 Verse:

D        Bm   D       Bm
 I dreamed of a refuge  a red velvet world
D           Bm  G        D
 And I swore my sweet Lily  was on of the girls
D        Bm   D         Bm
 I loved her so madly   I loved her so long
D        Bm     G           Bm
 I woke with my dream girl  but her life was all gone

🎸 Chorus:

G  D     A         Bm
 Ooh Carolina,  so dark I can't see
G  D     A           Bm
 Ooh Carolina,  won't you let me go free

🎸 Verse:

D      Bm    D      Bm
 Love has no boundary  sorrow no end
D         Bm    G         D
 And the lawmen of Ashville  have no mercy in them

🎸 Chorus:

G  D     A         Bm
 Ooh Carolina,  so dark I can't see
G  D     A           Bm
 Ooh Carolina,  won't you let me go free

🎸 Outro:

A       Bm
 Let me reach  Tennessee

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