Standard Tuning
Last line played progressively slower with each syllable.
Modulate between D7 and D for the intro by using your pinky for the D keeping the other three fingers still.
Capo 4 for the original key, I use capo 2 which I prefer for solo guitar performance.
[Verse]
G C
Where it began, I can't begin to knowin
G D
But then I know it's going strong
G C
Was it the spring, and spring became a summer?
G D
Who’d have believed you'd come a-long?
[Chorus]
G Em
Hands, touching hands
D C D D C D
Reaching out, touching me, touching you
G C C G C
Sweet Caro-line,
C/G C C/G D D C D
good times never seemed so good
G C C G C
I m in-clined,
C/G C D
to believe they never would
C Bm Am
But now I'm
[Verse 2]
G C
Look at the night, and it don't seem so lonely
G D
We fill it up with only two
G C
And when I hurt, hurting runs off my shoulder
G D
How can I hurt when holding you?
G Em
Warm, touching warm
D C D D C D
Reaching out, touching me, touching you
[Chorus]
G C C G C
Sweet Caro-line,
C/G C C/G D D C D
good times never seemed so good
G C C G C
I m in-clined,
C/G C D
to believe they never would
C Bm Am
Oh no no
[Chorus] Modulate between D7 and D again
G C C G C
Sweet Caro-line,
C/G C C/G D D C D
good times never seemed so good
G C C G C
Sweet Caro-line,
C/G C D
I believed they never could
D7 Am7 Em C G
Sweet Car- ol- line