Carolina Rain chords by 
Ryan Adams 
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Key: E major•
Intro 1
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A
Bm
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D
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D
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Verse 1
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Rose lived
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on the south side of town
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Un til her landlord showed up
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with two hundred dollar bills
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A notice of eviction on the other hand
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Now she don't live there no more
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And every one thinks he drowned
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
Bm
A
I pulled into Mecklenburg
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on them trains
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D
Into a sta tion that got flooded
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when they opened up the dam
Bm
And broke their connec
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tions to the railway lines
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So they could blast into the quarry
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And for every load of granite
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We got a ton of worry
Verse 3
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Bm
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One night at the diner over eggs
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Over easy she showed me
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the length of her legs
Bm
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E
But that gold plated cross on her neck ,
it was real
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And you don't get that kind
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of money from pushing meal
Interlude 2
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Verse 4
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I should've told him that
you were the one for me
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But I lied, but I lied
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To most any drifter whose
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looking for work is too weird
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I met your sister and I
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married her in Ju ly
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But if only to be closer to you,
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Car oline
Interlude 3
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Verse 5
Bm
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Percy and I moved down the street
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Until we lost two pretty girls
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One was seven and one was three
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Alderman and Car oline owned
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the house right up the hill
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Where we laid those babies down
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So they could still see our house
Verse 6
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Bm
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Sus picion got the best of
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old Al derman Haint
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He owned an auto parts store
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off the interstate
Bm
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But the lord took him home in Ju ly
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And then Rose spilled the beans
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on the day that he died
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We was in trouble
Verse 7
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I should've told him that
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you were the one for me
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But I lied, but I lied
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Tied up to concrete at the
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bottom of the quarry
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With a tattoo on his heart that
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spelled out "Caroline"
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He was si lent but his rosary
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Well, it drifted into the cus tody
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Of a sher iff that was just deputized
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Verse 8
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And I was down at the
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banquet hall
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When two guys came up ,
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pretty angry and drunk
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And I'm still here at the banquet hall
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At the banquet hall
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Where the gun went off in
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the Car olina rain
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In the Carolina rain
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In the Car olina rain
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Oh, Car oline
Outro 1
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Bm
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Bm
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