(capo x1)
Intro: C F G
Verse 1:
F G
Sometimes I think about you.
Am G C
Wonder if you're out there somewhere thinkin' about me.
F G
And would you even recognize,
Am G C
The woman that your little girl has grown up to be.
F C
Cuz I look in the mirror and all I see,
F C
Are your brown eyes looking back at me.
F C G
They're the only thing you ever gave to me at all.
C F C G
Oh I hear the weather's nice in California.
F G C G
There's sunny skies as far as I can see.
C F C G
If you ever come back home to Carolina.
F G C F C G
I wonder what you'd say to me.
Verse 2:
F G
I think about how it ain't fair.
Am G C
That you weren't there to braid my hair like mothers do.
F G
You weren't around to cheer me on.
Am G C
Help me dress for my high school prom like mothers do.
F C
Did you think I didn't need you here.
F C
To hold my hand, to dry my tears.
F C G
Did you even miss me through the years at all?
(Chorus)
Bridge:
Am F
Forgiveness.
C
Such a simple word.
F C
But it’s so hard to do.
G
When you've been hurt.
Last Chorus:
C F C G
Oh I hear the weather's nice in California.
F G C G
And just in case you're wondering about me.
C F C G
From now on I won't be in Carolina
F G
Your little girl is off...
F G
Your little girl is off...
F G C
Your little girl is off to Tennessee