Carolina Mountain Dewe

INTRO:   VERSE: Somewhere in the mountains in northern Alabama The Carolina lady waits for her man from Tennessee      Somewhere in a motel out in Oklahoma There’s the Alabama dreamer                               --     That same man from Tennessee VERSE: Sometime late at night the lonely wakes her gently And knocks at her door  but she won’t give in         But like every other woman She needs to feel wanted She thinks of making love and goes to sleep again       CHORUS: Carolina dreamin’lonely Carolina can’t you see You will always be the lady That I dream of holding tight That I kiss and tell goodnight                       --   -- Carolina  mountain dewe VERSE:   Sometime that next day on a Mississippi freeway The Alabama dreamer   is homeward bound         His conscious is as clear  as those green eyes of Carolina And she’s waiting with the baby from the love Of the only man to lay her down     CHORUS: Carolina dreamin’lonely   Carolina can’t you see You will always be the lady That I dream of holding tight That I kiss and tell goodnight Carolina  mountain dewe Carolina  I love you