ooh caroline you used to be clean til you met your old beau and he left you unwed and they christened you the black sheep to keep the world from knowing what the rest of em did ooh caroline you re not a beauty queen unlike some other siblings who shall remain unnamed but personally i d say you ve got em all beat cause you re the only one sweet enough to live in shame cause they see somethin tarnished somethin borrowed somethin used well their imagery s outdated yeah they re just a tad confused cause they pushed you off a burning train and blamed the fall on you but you look just the same to me yeah i don t see what they see ooh oh oh oh caroline ca ca caroline la da da da i just don t see what they see yeah you look just the same to me ooh caroline it brings me chagrin to see the look on your face that you believe what they say cause we all recall love at seventeen if they call that obscene they know not what they say cause they re quotin somethin ancient somethin biased somethin cruel and i m sure they mean to help you but be wary of the wolves cause you re only in the pack til you start questioning the rules and you don t look like them to me yeah i don t see what they see ooh oh oh oh i just don t see what they see so please don t change a thing caroline