OK this is my way of playing this song:

The easy way off playing this song is simply G, D, C, D, over and over and C and G in the bridge

Tuning half a step down and then your low E (now D#) down another whole step (as if playing in drop D)

so the tuning should be c#,g#,c#,f#,a#,d#

G- 550030

goes as follows:

verse:

|--------------|
|--------------|
|----------12--|
|----------12--|  
|-10-----------|   G
|--------------|


|--------------|
|--------------|
|----------12--| D
|----------12--|  
|--------------|
|-12-----------|

|--------------|
|--------------|
|----------12--|
|----------12--|  C
|--------------|
|-10-----------|

|--------------|
|--------------|
|----------12--|  D
|----------12--|  
|--------------|
|-12-----------|    - optional

Tennessee, January
Everything, ordinary
You're unlike anything I've seen
Is this how I really feel?
Or just another heart to steal
To fuel the song that's underneath

chorus:
G, D,  Cadd9,   D         G  D,  Cadd9 D
Carolina, you will have to forgive me
G, D, Cadd9, D,            Em         D
Carolina, this is just my tendancy
Cadd9, D
Forgive me

verse:

I pass another day wasting
Thoughts on what's ahead asking
What if and why not and who's to say?
When all I really know of you
Is you're just as lonely too
'Cause desperate hearts are hearts that need someone

[Chorus]

[Bridge:]

C        G (554030) x4
I'm careless sometimes
I'm sure that you'll find
But that's now how
I want to live my life
I wanna to be sure
But don't know how to
How hard I try

[Chorus}