(capo x1) 

Intro:  C F G 

Verse 1: 
F	    G 
Sometimes I think about you. 
Am   		 G       	     C 
Wonder if you're out there somewhere thinkin' about me. 
    F	           G	 
And would you even recognize, 
Am 		    G		    C		  
The woman that your little girl has grown up to be. 
      F			     C 
Cuz I look in the mirror and all I see, 
    F			    C 
Are your brown eyes looking back at me. 
	    F			C	      G 
They're the only thing you ever gave to me at all. 


[Refrão]
     C			F       C   G 
Oh I hear the weather's nice in California.  
	F	       G		    C	G 
There's sunny skies as far as I can see.  
       C		      F	      C   G	 
If you ever come back home to Carolina. 
  F	 G		   C	F  C  G 
I wonder what you'd say to me. 

Verse 2: 
F		  G 
I think about how it ain't fair. 
Am 			  G		     C	 
That you weren't there to braid my hair like mothers do. 
F		      G 
You weren't around to cheer me on. 
Am		     G			   C 
Help me dress for my high school prom like mothers do. 
	F	       C 
Did you think I didn't need you here. 
   F                C 
To hold my hand, to dry my tears. 
        F	     C			  G 
Did you even miss me through the years at all? 

(Chorus) 

Bridge: 
Am	  F 
Forgiveness. 
       C 
Such a simple word. 
	 F	     C 
But it’s so hard to do. 
		 G 
When you've been hurt. 


Last Chorus: 
     C			F       C   G 
Oh I hear the weather's nice in California. 
     F			G	        C   G 
And just in case you're wondering about me. 
         C    F		  C   G 
From now on I won't be in Carolina 
      F		    G 
Your little girl is off... 
      F		    G 
Your little girl is off... 
      F		    G	        C 
Your little girl is off to Tennessee