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Somewhere in the mountains in northern Alabama
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The Carolina lady waits for her man from Tennessee
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Somewhere in a motel out in Oklahoma
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There's the Alabama dreamer
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That same man from Tennessee
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Sometime late at night the lonely wakes her gently
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And knocks at her door but she won't give in
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But like every other woman she needs to feel wanted
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She thinks of making love and goes to sleep again
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Carolina dreamin' lonely
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Carolina can't you see
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You will always be the lady
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That I dream of holding tight
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That I kiss and tell goodnight
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Carolina mountain dew
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Sometime that next day on a Mississippi freeway
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The Alabama dreamer is homeward bound
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His conscious is as clear as those green eyes of Carolina
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And she's waiting with the baby from the love
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Of the only man to lay her down
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Carolina dreamin' lonely
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Carolina can't you see
A G#m
You will always be the lady
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That I dream of holding tight
B7
That I kiss and tell goodnight
F#m B7 E
Carolina mountain dew
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Carolina I love you