Chords for Robbie Fulks - Fare thee well, Carolina Gals - Live at McCabe's

[Bb] _ _ _ This is kind of a picture of I think it's a fairly accurate picture of what life was like in North Carolina in the mid
70s like a long gone time and
And it's got it's got a little bit of local detail in it.
It's got Tommy Thompson and he's a banjoist that
_ lived down there that was a
Really nice guy and I was friends with his family
he was in a group called the red clay Ramblers and he's he's dead now and _
_ and a lot of those a lot of those people are dead now, but
_ But this is sort of half from Theron's perspective and half mine probably it's called fare thee well Carolina _ gals
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_ _ Those loose limb [F] gals would swing their feet [Eb] down the airport [Bb] side of Franklin Street
[Eb] And I watch them in the not [Gm] quite innocent [F] way.
I'm looking at them [Cm] this evening
[A] _ _ [Eb] Thinking _ _ _
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about the [Dm] plans I put on hold [Eb] while the town got smaller [Bb] and the days unrolled [Eb] now
There ain't but two [Gm] _ stories [F] told this one's [Eb] about leaving
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_ _ I remember Katie [F] then Rosalie.
I [Eb] was pressing my [Bb] luck when I tried for [Eb] three some [Gm] shrink from a shameful [F] deed
_ Do [Cm] it gladly
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[Bb] I hand you a [F] line, you know, that's true [Bb] if I give you a couple then it's yours to [Eb] choose
One story [Gm] from a total of two [F] has got a good chance to [Eb] end badly
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_ _ _ _ [F] _ fare thee [Bb] well Carolina [F] gals, I'm going where you [Eb] can't find [Bb] me
There'll be trouble in the days to come and [C] a lot more fools [Bb] behind _ me _ _
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_ _ _ _ Well, I was just a [F] lad about yay [Eb] tall sniffing that glue [Bb] in the Northgate [Eb] mall down where the [Gm] increment say you all
[F] And kindness is a show [Eb] for _ strangers _ _
[Bb] All them B school boys [F] and old hippie [Eb] men sweating in the Sun to [Bb] no clear end
[Eb] I made a medium to [G] poor boy friend [F] and a pretty good _ [D] [Eb] house _
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_ _ _ _ [F] So fare thee well [Bb] Carolina [F] gals, I'm going where you [Eb] can't find me
[Bb] _ _ [F] There'll be trouble [Gm] in the days to come and a [F] lot more fools [Bb] behind _ me _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ From his home [F] dad's heart couldn't be hewn [Eb] like a simple phrase [Bb] and a well-made [Eb] tale
But sack of [Gm] leaves sound good on the moon.
[F] You don't need a cane [Eb] chair and a hound _ dog
_ _ [Bb] _ He'd sing the [F] blues I just [Eb] smiled I was such [Bb] a calm and settled _ [Eb] child
Thanking the Lord [Gm] never dreaming the while [F] he was laying out [G] [Cm] my _ _ downfall
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_ _ So with my hair in my [F] eyes and my chest out [Gm] swelled I stood on her porch and I buzzed the bell
Peeking around the blind knowing [G] full well [F] that her folks was [Eb] gone to Boston
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_ _ [Bb] Now they mean quiet [Dm] when they say lights [Eb] out
But that was love [Gm] making and it made me shout daddy would have come home fast
No [F] doubt if he knew what the [Eb] weekend _ [Bb] cost him _ _ _
So _ _ _ _ _ _ [F]
fare thee well _ Carolina gals, I'm going where you [Eb] can't find me
[Bb] There'll be trouble in the days [Gm] to come and a lot [F] more fools [Bb] behind _ _ me _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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a cruel word escapes my mind don't worry, honey.
It's just the [F] wine
_ [Bb] Second thought it's not the wine.
[F] It's just [Eb] me talking _
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_ _ _ _ [Bb] Women pour out our [Fm] problems [Eb] like we think that [Bb] they're unique
_ [Eb] That's you and a baby [Gm] starts to speak.
[Fm] They ought to give them a prize [Bb] for stopping _ _ _ _
_ Maybe _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ don't you be [Dm] too [F] surprised if [Eb] I cash in the farm [Bb] after mama dies [Gm] get a Cadillac and just ride
to [F] the Pacific
_ [Eb] meets the bumper
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_ _ _ I
[Bb] Stopped looking at me like [F] I've lost a screw [Eb] like things [Bb] had to leave where they led to with a house
I've gone [Gm] to cut zoo.
I'd be [F] lucky [Eb] to get a _ _ clunker _ _ _
_ [Bb] By luck I landed [F] in the upper [Eb] South by God.
I gotta [Bb] make my own way out
[Eb] I should have [Gm] read the signs by now.
[F] I should have heard the [Eb] locust buzzing
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[Bb] poor
_ _ Tommy [F] Thompson's dead and [Eb] gone and I've been [Bb] feeling not so [Eb] strong
Chapel Hill [Gm] hasn't done me [F] wrong.
It was fine [Eb] until _
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_ _ _ [Bb] can't find me there'll be trouble in the [G] days to come
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Fairly [Bbm] well Carolina gals.
[F] I'm going where you [Eb] can't find me.
There will [F] be trouble in [Gm] the days _
More [F] _ fools [Bb] behind me _
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