Standard Tuning

Last line played progressively slower with each syllable.

Modulate between D7 and D for the intro

Capo 2


G                 C     
  Where it began,   I can't begin to knowin
G                            D
  But then I know it's going strong
G                    C
  Was it the spring,  and spring became a summer?
G                                  D
  Who’d have believed you'd come a-long?

G       Em
 Hands,     touching hands
D                        C            D    D  C  D
  Reaching out, touching me, touching you

G          C     C  G  C                        
Sweet Caro-line, 
     C/G   C     C/G       D    D C D
good times never seemed so good
G      C        C G C                    
I m in-clined, 
   C/G     C          D
to believe they never would

C     Bm    Am
But   now   I'm

G                    C                              
  Look at the night,   and it don't seem so lonely
G                          D
   We fill it up with only two
G                  C                                      
  And when I hurt,   hurting runs off my shoulder                       
G                             D
  How can I hurt when holding you?

G     Em
Warm,    touching warm

D                        C            D    D C D
  Reaching out, touching me, touching you


G          C     C G C                        
Sweet Caro-line, 
     C/G   C     C/G       D    D C D
good times never seemed so good
G      C        C G C                    
I m in-clined, 
     C/G   C          D
to believe they never would

C   Bm  Am
Oh  no  no

Modulate between D7 and D again

G          C     C G C                        
Sweet Caro-line, 
     C/G   C     C/G       D    D C D
good times never seemed so good

G          C     C G C                        
Sweet Caro-line, 
    C/G    C          D
I believed they never could

D7      Am7  Em  C    G 
Sweet   Car- ol- line