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