G                          C              G
Somewhere in the mountains in northern Alabama

G                 Em                     Am        D7
The Carolina lady waits for her man from Tennessee

G                    C          G    Em
Somewhere in a motel out in Oklahoma

Em          Am              D7
There's the Alabama dreamer 

D7                      G
That same man from Tennessee



G                      C                    G
Sometime late at night the lonely wakes her gently

G                      Em                 Am  D7
And knocks at her door but she won't give in

         G                 C                 G      Em
But like every other woman she needs to feel wanted

    Am                    D7                G     G7
She thinks of making love and goes to sleep again



    C             Bm    G7
Carolina dreamin' lonely

    C              G
Carolina can't you see

         C             Bm
You will always be the lady

       Am
That I dream of holding tight

       D7
That I kiss and tell goodnight

    Am   D7       G
Carolina mountain dew



G                      C                 G
Sometime that next day on a Mississippi freeway

G                   Em          Am     D7
The Alabama dreamer is homeward bound

    G                     C                          G    Em
His conscious is as clear as those green eyes of Carolina

          Am                             D7
And she's waiting with the baby from the love

D7                         G    G7
Of the only man to lay her down



    C             Bm    G7
Carolina dreamin' lonely

    C              G
Carolina can't you see

         C             Bm
You will always be the lady

       Am
That I dream of holding tight

       D7
That I kiss and tell goodnight

    Am   D7       G
Carolina mountain dew



    Am   D7     G
Carolina I love you