Carolina Rain

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[Verse 1]
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Rose lived on the south side of town
          G               D       
Until her landlord showed up with 
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two hundred dollar bills
  Bm         A              E
A notice of eviction on the other 
hand
              G             D     
Now she don't live there no more 
        A              E
and everyone thinks she drowned


[Verse 2]
Bm            A                   
I pulled into Mecklenburg on them 
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trains
        G               D         
Into a station that was flooded 
        A
when they opened up the dams
    Bm            A                
And broke their connections to the 
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railway lines
              G              D    
So they could blast into the 
            A
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           
But that gold plated cross on her 
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neck it was real
              G                D  
And you don't get that kind of 
        A           E
money from pushing the meal


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[Chorus]
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I shouldh've told him that you were 
the one for me
A                 G
But I lied, but I lied
   E                             
To most any drifter who's looking 
                 A
for work is too weird
           G            C         
I met your sister and I married 
       D
her in July
       A          G         C    
But if only to be closer to you, 
    D   E
Caroline


[Verse 4]
Bm        A                 E
Percy and I moved down the street
         G               D        
Until we lost two pretty girls one
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 was seven and one was three
Bm           A                  
Alderman and Caroline owned the 
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house right up the hill
         G                 D      
Where we laid those babies down so
             A            E
 they could still see our house


[Verse 5]
   Bm             A         
Suspicion got the best of old 
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Alderman Haint
            G           D         
He owned an auto parts store off 
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the interstate
        Bm            A         E
But the Lord took him home in July
         G                D       
And then Rose spilled the beans on
     A           E
 the day that he died and we were in
 trouble


[Chorus]
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I shouldh've told him that you were 
the one for me
A                 G
But I lied, but I lied
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Tied up too concrete at the bottom 
of the quarry
       A             G        
With a tattoo on his heart that 
          C       D
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       
And I'm still here at the banquet 
D            G       D
hall, at the banquet hall
          A                  
Where the gun went off in the 
 E        G   D  A
Carolina Rain
       E        G   D  A
In the Carolina rain
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In the Carolina rain
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Oh, Caroline