Carolina chords by Robert Earl Keen

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

🎸 Verse:

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


🎸 Chorus:

FF  C majorC     G+G         A minorAm
 Ooh Carolina,  so dark I can't see
FF  C majorC     G+G           A minorAm
 Ooh Carolina,  won't you let me go free

🎸 Verse:

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

🎸 Chorus:

FF  C majorC     G+G         A minorAm
 Ooh Carolina,  so dark I can't see
FF  C majorC     G+G           A minorAm
 Ooh Carolina,  won't you let me go free

🎸 Verse:

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

🎸 Verse:

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

🎸 Chorus:

G+G  D MajorD     A augmentedA         B minorBm
 Ooh Carolina,  so dark I can't see
G+G  D MajorD     A augmentedA           B minorBm
 Ooh Carolina,  won't you let me go free

🎸 Verse:

D MajorD      B minorBm    D MajorD      B minorBm
 Love has no boundary  sorrow no end
D MajorD         B minorBm    G+G         D MajorD
 And the lawmen of Ashville  have no mercy in them

🎸 Chorus:

G+G  D MajorD     A augmentedA         B minorBm
 Ooh Carolina,  so dark I can't see
G+G  D MajorD     A augmentedA           B minorBm
 Ooh Carolina,  won't you let me go free

🎸 Outro:

A augmentedA       B minorBm
 Let me reach  Tennessee