[Verso 1]

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. 


[Refrão]


F    C         G                  Am 
 Ooh Carolina,    so dark I can't see 
F    C         G                     Am 
 Ooh Carolina,   won't you let me go free 

 

[Verso 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 alone 


[Refrão]


F    C         G                  Am 
 Ooh Carolina,    so dark I can't see 
F    C         G                     Am 
 Ooh Carolina,   won't you let me go free 



[Verso 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 rain 

 

[Verso 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 gone 



[Refrão]

G    D         A                  Bm 
 Ooh Carolina,    so dark I can't see 
G    D         A                     Bm 
 Ooh Carolina,   won't you let me go free 


[Verso 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 them 

[Refrão]



G    D         A                  Bm 
 Ooh Carolina,    so dark I can't see 
G    D         A                     Bm 
 Ooh Carolina,   won't you let me go free 

Outro 

A              Bm 
  Let me reach    Tennessee