(capo x1) 

Intro:  C F G 


Verse 1: 
F          G 
Sometimes I think about you. 
Am                G                  C 
Wonder if you're out there somewhere thinkin' about me. 
    F                 G       
And would you even recognize, 
Am                 G                C              
The woman that your little girl has grown up to be. 
      F                       C 
Cuz I look in the mirror and all I see, 
    F                      C 
Are your brown eyes looking back at me. 
          F                  C            G 
They're the only thing you ever gave to me at all. 


     C                  F       C   G 
Oh I hear the weather's nice in California.  
      F             G                C      G 
There's sunny skies as far as I can see.  
       C                  F            C   G       
If you ever come back home to Carolina. 
  F       G               C      F  C  G 
I wonder what you'd say to me.  

Verse 2: 
F              G 
I think about how it ain't fair. 
Am                     G                 C       
That you weren't there to braid my hair like mothers do. 
F                  G 
You weren't around to cheer me on. 
Am                 G                     C 
Help me dress for my high school prom like mothers do. 
      F             C 
Did you think I didn't need you here. 
   F                C 
To hold my hand, to dry my tears. 
        F           C                    G 
Did you even miss me through the years at all? 

(Chorus) 

Bridge: 
Am        F 
Forgiveness. 
       C 
Such a simple word. 
       F           C 
But it?s so hard to do. 
             G 
When you've been hurt. 

Last Chorus: 
     C                  F       C   G 
Oh I hear the weather's nice in California. 
     F                  G              C   G 
And just in case you're wondering about me. 
         C    F              C   G 
From now on I won't be in Carolina 
      F                G 
Your little girl is off... 
      F                G 
Your little girl is off... 
      F                G              C 
Your little girl is off to Tennessee