Written by Wandell Smith
Recorded by Lonesome River Band
Album: One Step Forward (2006)

Verse 1
When I was pushin’ thirty
She was in her teens
Oh, how she loved me
This pretty teenage queen
But a few years after marriage
She loved me no more
When I was pushin’ forty
She was barely twenty-four

Verse 2 (different chords)
        Then the trouble started
        Between Carolyn and me
        I was satisfied at home
        But she longed to be free
        Been searchin’ for that somethin’
        And the pastures looked so green
        Through the eyes of Carolyn
        Carolyn the teenage queen

Verse 3
Each day, her love grew colder
At night, she’d go to town
Gossip came to me
Carolyn was runnin’ ‘round
I didn’t want to believe it
But I knew it must be true
I couldn’t stand to lose her
So I knew what I must do

Verse 4 (different chords)
        Carolyn, I was thinkin’
        As I cleaned my gun
        Go out and have a good time
        It’s your last night of fun
        Twelve o’clock, one o’clock
        Then a quarter ‘til two
        And I’m still burnin’ the midnight oil
        Waitin’ up for you

Verse 5
Car pulled in the driveway
The man wore a badge and gun
Said, “You got a wife named Carolyn
I think you better come”
In a wreck out on the highway
She’d met her final end
I was starin’ in her face, so deathly white
She cheated me once again

Verse 6 (different chords)
        Each night, I think of Carolyn
        Layin’ beneath the soil
        Each night, my mind grows weaker
        As I burn the midnight oil
        My mind has thoughts of her bad side
        That my heart’s never seen
        I’m still in love with Carolyn
        Carolyn the teenage queen

Refrain
I’m still in love with Carolyn
Carolyn the teenage queen

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