Year: 1984 - Album: Roll On
INTRO: G VERSE: G C G Somewhere in the mountains in northern Alabama G Em Am D7 D The Carolina lady waits for her man from Tennessee G C G Em Somewhere in a motel out in Oklahoma Am D There's the Alabama dreamer G Bm-Am-G That same man from Tennessee VERSE: G C G Sometime late at night the lonely wakes her gently G Em Am D7 D 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 D G Gsus G7 She thinks of making love and goes to sleep again CHORUS: 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 D That I kiss and tell goodnight Am D G Bm-Am-G C#m-Bm-A Carolina, mountain dewe VERSE: A D A Sometime that next day on a Mississippi freeway F#m Bm Esus4 E The Alabama dreamer is homeward bound A D A F#m His conscious is as clear, as those green eyes of Carolina Bm E And she's waiting with the baby from the love A A7 Of the only man to lay her down CHORUS: D C#m A7 Carolina, dreamin'lonely D A Carolina, can't you see D C#m You will always be the lady Bm That I dream of holding tight E That I kiss and tell goodnight Bm E A Carolina, mountain dewe Bm E A G D/F# D A Carolina, I love you