D                     G         D 
We met on The Carolinian ? heading south from D.C.  
D              G             A 
It's as if God himself had picked out our seats  
G                        D             A 
She smiled and said ?Richmond? when I asked where she was bound  
D                  Bm                G         A       D 
I began to wish my life away to have been born in that town  


D                         G        D 
We talked a little bit and then she smiled, I saw down in her eyes  
D                     G         A 
She wasn?t just beautiful, she was kind and she was wise  
G                       D         A 
But a woman down in Raleigh, would soon have my son  
       D                Bm     G     A      D 
So I waited for her station like the bullet from a gun  


D                 A 
She?s in Richmond with my heart - 
G     A     D 
And I'm bound for Carolina  
D             A 
Wish I?d never met this train 
G    A         D 
or the girl that?s left behind her  


D                        G                D 
When the train reached the station, she looked me in the eye  
D                             G             A 
Said, ?Come with me to Richmond and we?ll start a brand new life?  
G                    D             A 
Well you know that moment still weighs on my mind  
        D              Bm            G        A      D 
?Cause I took my body to Raleigh, and left my heart behind  



D                 A 
She?s in Richmond with my heart - 
G     A     D 
And I'm bound for Carolina  
D             A 
Wish I?d never met this train 
G    A         D 
or the girl that?s left behind her- 
Bm          G   
now we're apart  
G                 A         A                      D 
While I'm bound for Caroline - she?s in Richmond with my heart 

D                         G         D 
My son is grown up to my hand, and he fills me with pride  
D                      G              A 
I take him down to the station to watch the trains roll by 
G                       D             A  
But that northbound Carolinian always makes the teardrops start 
    D          Bm        G          A         D 
Cause its headed up to Virginia where I left my heart  


D                 A 
She?s in Richmond with my heart - 
G     A     D 
And I'm bound for Carolina  
D             A 
Wish I?d never met this train 
G    A         D 
or the girl that?s left behind her- 
Bm          G   
now we're apart  
G                 A         A                      D 
While I'm bound for Caroline - she?s in Richmond with my heart 
I'm still down in Caroline, she?s in Richmond with my heart