CAROLINA IN MY MIND

In my mind I’m gone to Carolina.
Can’t you see the sunshine? 
Can’t you just feel the moonshine? 
Ain’t it just like a friend of mine to hit me from behind,
Yes I’m gone to Carolina in my mind.

Karen, she’s a silver sun, you’d best walk her away and watch it shining.
Watch her watch the morning come. 
A silver tear appearing now I’m crying ain’t I?
I’m 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?
I’m gone to Carolina in my mind.

In my mind I’m gone to Carolina.
Can’t you see the sunshine? 
Can’t you just feel the moonshine? 
Ain’t it just like a friend of mine to hit me from behind,
Yes I’m gone to Carolina in my mind.

Dark and silent, late last night, I think I might have heard the highway calling;
Geese in flight and dogs that bite. 
And signs that might be omens say I’m goin’, I’m goin’,
I’m gone to Carolina in my mind. 
With a holy host of others standing around me,
Still I’m on the dark side of the moon.
And it seems like it goes on like this forever.  You must forgive me
If I’m up and gone to Carolina in my mind.

In my mind I’m gone to Carolina.
Can’t you see the sunshine? 
Can’t you just feel the moonshine? 
Ain’t it just like a friend of mine to hit me from behind? 
Yes I’m gone to Carolina in my mind.

Gone to Carolina in my mind.
Gone to Carolina in my mind gone, I am  gone.
Gone. Gone to Carolina in my mind.

1968 – James Taylor – Album: James Taylor