A música Carolina in My Mind foi escrita por James Taylor enquanto ele estava no estrangeiro gravando para a Apple Records. Ela reflete seus sentimentos de saudade de seu lar na Carolina do Norte.
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In my mind I've gone to Carolina
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Can't you see the sunshine? Can't you just feel the
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moonshining? Ain't it just like a friend of mine to
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I've gone to Carolina in my mind.
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Karen, she's a silver sun you'd best
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walk her way and watch it shining.
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----watch her watch the morning come.
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A silver tear appearing now, I'm cry - ing ain't I?
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I've gone to Carolina in my mind.
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There ain't no doubt in no ones mind that
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loves the finest thing around.
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---Whisper something soft and kind.
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And hey babe, the skies on fire, I'm dying ain't I?
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I've gone to Carolina in my mind.
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In my mind I've gone to Carolina
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I've gone to Carolina in my mind.
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Dark and silent, late last night I think I
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might have heard the highway calling
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--- geese in flight and dogs that bite.
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And signs that might be omens say I'm go - ing,
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I'm going,
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I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.
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With a holy host of others standing round me
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Still I'm on the dark side of the moon.
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And it seems like it goes on like this forever.
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You must forgive me
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if I'm up and gone to Carolina in my mind.
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In my mind I've gone to Carolina
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I've gone to Carolina in my mind. ************************************