• Song:

    Carolina in My Mind

  • Artist:

    James Taylor

  • Album:

    Live in Rio

Carolina In My Mind
        Tabbed by Kalvin Clauer
        Based on the youtube lesson by Kirby

        The hook based on a D with Dsus2:
        ---2-----0---0-h-2--|
        ---3-----3---3------|
        -------2------------|
        -0---0-------0------|
        --------------------|
        --------------------|

        The chord run:
        ---2---2-----------------------------|
        ---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---------|
        ---2---2---4---2---0---0---0---------|
        -0-----------------------------------|
        -----4---2---0-----------------------|
        -----------------3---2---0-----------|

 	D	         G G/F#	Em A7
        In my mind I've gone to Carolina
 	G	          A7        Em7
 	Can't you see the sunshine? Can't you just feel the
 	A7      *Chord run*(D	      D/C#   Bm	       D/A
        moonshining?  	Ain't it just like a friend of mine to
 	G	D/F#	Em7)
 	hit me 	from behind
        D	     Em7      A7    D *Hook*
 	I've gone to Carolina in my mind.

 	D              C9
 	Karen, she's a silver sun you'd best
 	G	G/F#     Em       A7
 	walk her way and watch it shining.
 	Bm	        G		  A7sus4 A7
 	----watch her 	watch the morning come.
 	G	      D/F#	        Esus4 E   A7
        A silver tear appearing now, Im cry-  ing ain't   I?
   	D	     Em7      A7    D *Hook*
 	I've gone to Carolina in my mind.

 	D	                 C9
        There ain' t no doubt in no ones mind that
 	G	G/F#     Em       A7
 	loves the finest thing around.
 	Bm	        G	  A7sus4 A7
 	---Whisper something soft and kind.
 	G	          D/F#	         Esus4 E        A7
        And hey babe, the skies on fire, Im dying ain't I?
 	D	     Em7      A7    D *Hook*
 	I've gone to Carolina in my mind.

Chorus

 	D                C9
 	Dark and silent, late last night I think the
 	G	   G/F#         Em      A7
 	lighthouse heard the 	highway calling;
 	Bm	        G	             A7sus4 A7
 	--- geese in 	flight and dogs that bite.
 	G	                D/F#	     Esus4 E
        And signs that might be omens say Im go -  ing,
 	   A7sus4 A7
 	I'm going,
 	D	    Em7      A7    D *Hook*
 	I'm goin to Carolina in my mind.

 	        G	     A7	             Bm
 	With a 	holy host of others standing round me
 	F#m7	        Em7	         G   A7
 	Still Im on the dark side of the moon.
 		C9	          G/B	       D
 	And it seems like it goes on like this forever.
 		 C9	G/B	Em7
        You must for - 	give me
 	   A7	D	D	Em7      A7     D *Hook*
 	if I'm up and 	gone to Carolina in my 	mind.

Chorus
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