Carolina in My Mind

Here's some information that will help you learn to play JT's "Carolina in my Mind." The original recording and all of the various concert performances that are available on disc and online have some complex fingerpicking, but you can strum the chords on this song and add some walking bass lines to simplfy the original arrangement. The following chord chart is from http://jamestaylortabs.com, and it appears to be pretty accurate. 

(Scroll down for some diagrams to help with some of the less common chords, and note that when you see a "slash" chord, such as G/F#, that means you are playing the chord shape indicated by the letter before the slash and a bass note of the letter after the slash.) If you play the chords below and have a capo on the third fret, you should be at the same pitch as heard in this video:

CAROLINA IN MY MIND (By James Taylor)
(Capo to 2nd or 3rd fret)

Chorus:
D G G/F# Em7 A
In my mind I'm gone to Carolina
G A
Can't you see the sunshine
Em7 A
Can't you just feel the moonshine
D D/C# D/B D/A
And ain't it just like a friend of mine
G G/F# Em7
To hit me from behind
A D Bm Em7 A D
And I'm gone to Carolina in my mind
D C
Karin she's a silver sun
G A
You'd best walk her way and watch it shine
Bm G A
Watch her watch the morning come

G F#m Bm Em
A silver tear appearing now I'm crying ain't I
D Bm Em7 A D
Gone to Carolina in my mind
There ain't no doubt in no-one's mind
That love's the finest thing around
Whisper something soft and kind
And hey babe the sky's on fire I'm dying ain't I
Gone to Carolina in my mind
Chorus
Dark and silent late last night
Think I might have heard the highway call
Geese in flight and dogs that bite
And signs that might be omens say I'm going going
Gone to Carolina in my mind
G A Bm
Now with a holy host of others standing round me
F#m Em G A
Still I'm on the dark side of the moon
C G D
And it seems like it goes on like this forever
C D/B Em
You must forgive me
A D Bm Em7 A D
If I'm up and gone to Carolina in my mind
Chorus
Chorus