Caroline
Otis Gibbs
 
CAPO 3rd Fret
 
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With her brother in the kitchen breaking green beans in half
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While her father worked in a coal mine - Doing chores he'd left for them
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I say her momma left and took the family car on a cold midwestern evening
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She left everything behind, searching for a little piece of mind
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Somewhere on the other side
 
CHORUS
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Caroline, Caroline......lives her life inside a daydream
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And she keeps it all inside - all the pain she has to hide
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All the boys would stand in line for Caroline
 
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When the daughter of a miner loved the boy from down the road
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At sixteen she was wedded - He was 24 years old
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Well the checks were small and the debts were large and it seemed he'd never work
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He had a problem with the bottle - He'd get drunk and she'd get hurt
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Lonely, depressed and insecure
 
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Caroline, Caroline......lives her life inside a daydream
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And she keeps it all inside - all the pain she has to hide
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All the boys would stand in line for Caroline             
 
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Living in a motel room sleeping double across two beds
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She tries not to wake the children tangled in her long black hair
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She dreams of leaving him and putting him in jail high walls and iron bars
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She read the sins of the father will be visited upon the son
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She lives in fear of things to come
 
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Caroline, Caroline.....lives her life inside a daydream
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And she keeps it all inside - all the pain she has to hide
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Peace will be with you in time - Caroline
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Peace will be with you in time - Caroline