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Carolina Shag by John Mellencamp
Carolina Shag
Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:G#m
Capo:4th fret
[Intro]
C D C D C D
C D C D C D
C D C D
[Verse 1]
C D
Next time you need a holiday
C D
I'll tell you what me and couple of friends did
C D
We got into a van and drove to the Carolina coast
C D
Laid on the beach and hid
[Verse 2]
C D
Well, the other guys didn't notice her
C D
I tell you what I sure did
C D
Well she asked me to come up and talk to her
C D
And up next to her I slid
D
And she said
[Pre-Chorus]
Em
Do you wanna go down to South America
A
No, crazy down there, she said
Em
Can I show you this little beach town, I said
A
Baby, I don't care and she said
[Chorus]
Em D C
Do you do the Carolina shag?
D
Dance, dance, dance
C D C
Do you do the Carolina shag?
D
Dance, dance, dance
[Verse 3]
C D
Down those Carolina beach towns
C D
They got a pretty, pretty girls
C D
They got a hundred beach clubs on every street corner
C D
Probably the best in the world
[Verse 4]
C D
And that ol' screaming Rock n' Roll
C D
Comes outta ol´ Johnny's dollars
C D
She was the first to arrive, the last to leave
C D
And man I can hear her holler
D
She said
[Pre-Chorus]
Em
Are you gonna be down there tonight?
A
Baby, you know that I will, she said
Em
You can come by yourself or you can bring your friends 'cause
A
Everybody's there, yeah
[Chorus]
C D C
Doing the Carolina shag
D
Dance, dance, dance
C D C
Doing the Carolina shag
D C
Dance, dance, dance, yeah yeah yeah
[Interlude]
C D C D C D
C D
[Guitar Solo]
C D C D C D
C D
[Verse 5]
C D
It's a crazy ol' world we live in
C D
And sometimes you need to relax
C D
And when the 9 to 5 is a monkey on your back
C D
And your bossman is wielding his big axe
[Pre-Chorus]
Em
If you don't like it down there
A
They give you your money back
Em
And I'll bet you one thing that once you leave
A
You can't wait to get back 'cause they're
[Chorus]
C D C
Doing the Carolina shag
D
Dance, dance, dance
C D C
Doing the Carolina shag
D C
Dance, dance, dance, yeah yeah
C D C
Doing the Carolina shag
D
Dance, dance, dance, yeah yeah
C D C
Doing the Carolina shag
D C
Dance, dance, dance, yeah yeah yeah
[Outro]
D C D C
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