Otis Gibbs - Caroline

Capo 3

D                        A
With her brother in the kitchen
Em                      G
Breaking green beans in half
D                            A    
While her father worked in a coal mine
Em                        G
Doing chores he left for them
D                        A
I say her momma left and took the family car
Em                   G       
On a cold midwestern evening
D                    A
She left everything behind
Em                              G     F#m/G
Searching for a little piece of mind
Em                     A7
Somewhere on the other side

D         F#m
Caroline Caroline
Bm                         G               
Lives her life inside a daydream
 D                     A
And she keeps it all inside
        Em              G
All the pain she has to hide
Em                         A7
All the boys will stand in line
    D
For Caroline

When the daughter of a miner
Of the boy from down the road
At sixteen she was wedded
He was 24 years old
Yeah the checks were small and the debts were large
And it'd seemed he never worked
He had a problem with the bottle
He'd get drunk and she'd get hurt
Lonely depressed and insecure

Repeat Chorus

Living in a motel room
Sleeping double across two beds
She tries not to wake the children
Tangled in her long black hair
She dreams of leaving him Putting him in jail
Her walls are not iron bars
She read the sins of the father
will be visited on the son
She lives in fear of things to come

Caroline Caroline
Lives her life inside a daydream
But she keeps it all inside
All the pain she has to hide
Peace will be with you in time
Caroline
Peace will be with you in time
Caroline