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Carolina Low Tabs

(ver. 1)
Decemberists
Tuning: DADGBE - Drop D

E ---------------------------------------|
B ---------------------------------------|
G -------0--2-----------------0----------|
D -0--3----------------0-3---------0-----|
A ---------------------------------------|
D ---------------------------------------|
   I am  a  boy from the high country

E ---------------------------------------|
B ---------------------------------------|
G --------------0------------------------|
D ----0-3------------2-----------2h3---0-|
A -----------------------------------3---|
D ---------------------------------------|
  And I got a little low for the offering

That's the gist of the song. Here it is without the lyrics. Might make it easier to see the melody.

E -----------------------------------------------|
B -----------------------------------------------|
G -----0-2--------0-----------0------------------|
D -0-3--------0-3---0-----0-3---2--------2h3---0-|
A -------------------------------------------3---|
D -----------------------------------------------|

He also walks down the low D string sometimes in the interludes between lyric like this:

A -3--------|
D ----3-2-0-|

And he also may do it at the last line of every stanza, as opposed to:

A -2h3---0-|
D -----3---|

I am a boy
From the high country
And I got a little low
For the offering
Come down from the mountains
Bow to the sea
Carolina low - to cradle thee

Gonna take you up
Gonna take you around
Oh, your poor little pant legs
Dragging down
Did you crack your lip?
Did you skin your knee?
Carolina low - to carry thee

What is sealed with a handshake
Is spoiled with a kiss
Got an ugly little mouth, boy
To come to this
I'm bound for the hilltops
Gonna make it bleed
Carolina low - to carry thee

I am a boy
From the high country
And I got a little low
For the offering
And I got a little low
For the offering
And I got a little low
For the offering
            
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