F# B F#
Somewhere in the mountains in northern Alabama
F# D#m G#m C#7
The Carolina lady waits for her man from Tennessee
F# B F# D#m
Somewhere in a motel out in Oklahoma
D#m G#m C#7
There's the Alabama dreamer
C#7 F#
That same man from Tennessee
F# B F#
Sometime late at night the lonely wakes her gently
F# D#m G#m C#7
And knocks at her door but she won't give in
F# B F# D#m
But like every other woman she needs to feel wanted
G#m C#7 F# F#7
She thinks of making love and goes to sleep again
B A#m F#7
Carolina dreamin' lonely
B F#
Carolina can't you see
B A#m
You will always be the lady
G#m
That I dream of holding tight
C#7
That I kiss and tell goodnight
G#m C#7 F#
Carolina mountain dew
F# B F#
Sometime that next day on a Mississippi freeway
F# D#m G#m C#7
The Alabama dreamer is homeward bound
F# B F# D#m
His conscious is as clear as those green eyes of Carolina
G#m C#7
And she's waiting with the baby from the love
C#7 F# F#7
Of the only man to lay her down
B A#m F#7
Carolina dreamin' lonely
B F#
Carolina can't you see
B A#m
You will always be the lady
G#m
That I dream of holding tight
C#7
That I kiss and tell goodnight
G#m C#7 F#
Carolina mountain dew
G#m C#7 F#
Carolina I love you