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C Am C Am The sweet smell of nighttime rides on the breeze C Am F C The river is winding through the hickory trees C Am C Am The redbones are howling down by Wilson's Bridge C Am F Am The lawmen stand waiting upon Deadman's Ridge.F C G Am Ooh Carolina, so dark I can't see F C G Am Ooh Carolina, won't you let me go freeVerse 2:
C Am C Am I came here with Lily a year just last fall C Am F C We left her old daddy back in Donegal C Am C Am We made us a home place of Black Mountain stone C Am F Am But one cold winter morning I woke up aloneF C G Am Ooh Carolina, so dark I can't see F C G Am Ooh Carolina, won't you let me go freeVerse 1:
C Am C Am Days full of silence are so incomplete C Am F C Nights without Lily I took to the streets C Am C Am And in the streets of Ashville I channeled my pain C Am F C Til one raging black night I slept in the rainVerse 1:
D Bm D Bm I dreamed of a refuge a red velvet world D Bm G D And I swore my sweet Lily was on of the girls D Bm D Bm I loved her so madly I loved her so long D Bm G Bm I woke with my dream girl but her life was all goneG D A Bm Ooh Carolina, so dark I can't see G D A Bm Ooh Carolina, won't you let me go freeVerse 1:
D Bm D Bm Love has no boundary sorrow no end D Bm G D And the lawmen of Ashville have no mercy in themOutro A Bm Let me reach TennesseeG D A Bm Ooh Carolina, so dark I can't see G D A Bm Ooh Carolina, won't you let me go free
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