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Caroline

Brandi Carlile

RockAdvanced for beginners4 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

E
BDiagram coming soon
A×
F#Diagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Capo on 7th fret
               
 
Intro E  B  A  E  B    
        E  B  A  E  B 
 
E 
I woke up long after dawn, 20 years had come and gone 
A 
I know when it changed for me, a day in June you came to me 
      F# 
I've seen through someone else's eyes with nothing on the other side 
B 
Every motel, every town pieces scattered all around 
 
A 
Promises that I can't be, someone's heart that I can't keep 
E 
Days so long I couldn't speak, roads so rocky I can't sleep 
    F# 
But I've seen things so beautiful all around this broken world 
     B 
That pale in comparison to you 
 
E  B  A   E   B              E 
Caroline I'm on my way back home to you 
A                E              F# 
Imagine what I'm going through without you by my side 
B           E     B    A     E  B               E 
It's been a long, long time, oh won't you say a prayer for me 
A                 E              F#                        B 
I hope you will remember me, you are always on my mind 
 
A 
I have seen the canyon lands, crooked lines like in your hands 
      E 
You'd swear the earth was split in two, I wouldn't lie I promise you 
     F# 
That I have seen it, you will too, you could not believe if not for  
B 
Photographs I took for you, Caroline 
 
A 
They've built towers to the sky it hurts sometimes to watch them try 
     E 
They run themselves into the ground but I know you will love them  
          F# 
And their city lights and city sounds, there's beauty in the struggle 
   B 
Anytime I feel it get me down I see you smiling 
 
E  B  A   E   B              E 
Caroline I'm on my way back home to you 
A                E              F# 
Imagine what I'm going through without you by my side 
B           E     B    A     E  B               E 
It's been a long, long time, oh won't you say a prayer for me 
A                 E            F# 
I hope you will remember me, you are always on my mind 
B 
My Caroline 
 
solo E  B  A  E  B 
       E  B  A  E  B 
       E  B  A  E  B 
       E  B  A  E  B 
 
    A 
Now I have seen things in the sky: stars and lights and birds and I 
E 
I've been rocky mountain high and told them all about you 
        F# 
Because you are still the only thing that constantly amazes me 
  B 
I love the road and I've been blessed but I love you best 
 
E  B  A   E   B              E 
Caroline I'm on my way back home to you 
A                E              F# 
Imagine what I'm going through without you by my side 
B           E     B    A     E  B               E 
It's been a long, long time, oh won't you say a prayer for me 
A                 E            F#  
I hope you will remember me, you are always on my mind 
F#                    B 
You are always on my mind, my Caroline 
          
 

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Chord set

E · B · A · F#

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.