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