Carolina Rua (the Crooked Road) appears on Mary Black's "No Frontiers" album, with a rather carribean-sounding arrangement. The arrangement shown here is songwriter Thom Moore's own original version, as found on his "Dreamer in Russia" CD.

Thom Moore's website can be found at http://www.harp-thistle.com/thom/

Carolina Rua 
(The Crooked Road)

Stories never end 
till you come to conclusions:
Carolina Rua has a hand in my confusion.
She waits for me to choose 
which quarter to bend in,
to Susie-Make-Me-Blue, 
or the redhead I?m attending.

Now, Carolina Rua has my heart 
and all I want to do?s
go down the windy road, 
where my Carolina goes;
down the crooked road, 
where Carolina goes to school,
Mo Charolina rua, do you love me? 
Tell me true, tell me.

Standing on three queens, 
I thought the game was over;
then, from the blue, Carolina?s at my shoulder.

Laughter in her eyes, 
and a smile that touches all the guys
on down the windy road, 
where my Carolina goes;
down the crooked road, 
where Carolina goes to school,
Mo Charolina rua, do you love me? 
Tell me true, tell me.

INTRO
/ F#m  Em / D 		/ A 	D	/ A 
/ Bm   (A)	/ G 	(F#) 	/ A 		/ D
VERSE & CHORUS [3X]
/ F#m  Em / D 		/ A 	D	/ A 
/ Bm   (A)	/ G 	(F#) 	/ A 		/ D
/ F#m  Em / D 		/ A 	D	/ A 
/ Bm   (A)	/ G 	(F#) 	/ A 		/ D
/ F#m 	/ G     	/ Em		/ A	
/ F#m   	/ G  		/ A   		/ D
/ F#m 	/ G     	/ Em		/ A	
/       		/F#m     	/ Em  (to verse)

?1989 Thom Moore, reg. IMRO, MCPS