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Carolina Is Gone (David A. Thompson | Woody Overtones Music, ASCAP) One of those songs where the lyrics for the chorus came first and drove the whole idea. Julie Elkins - lead vocal David Thompson - rhythm and lead guitar, bass, percussion Janet Beazley - harmony vocal Ron Craighead - drums Ivan Rosenberg - dobro Jason Thomas - mandolin, fiddle, viola Billy Varnes - harmony vocal Call it surrender but it's time to admit that it's over So just stay in Chicago, I know it's where you'd rather be 'Cause I've read every line in your letters And between all the lines in your face When our hearts began falling together from that fine state of grace Where the backroads of summer would take us away To love still smokey and sweet like the rain Carolina, Carolina, Carolina is gone No, we can't go back, Carolina is gone Maybe it's me or maybe the moonlight and moonshine That seeped through the cracks of things that took ten years to grow Now the past has been left in the southland Where the Blueridge once followed us home All those dreams that we carved in the mountains, they've all turned to stone Where the backroads of summer would take us away To love still smokey and sweet like the rain Carolina, Carolina, Carolina is gone No, we can't go back, Carolina is gone Call it surrender, but it's time I admit that it's over So I'll head for Montana and start a new life of my own But the same wind that sings through these willows Is the same wind that kisses your skin Then it rides some invisible jetstream back there again Where the backroads of summer would take us away To love still smokey and sweet like the rain Carolina, Carolina, Carolina is gone No, we can't go back, Carolina is gone We can never go back there Carolina is gone All rights reserved. Unauthorized use or duplication is a violation of applicable laws. |