Charleston/Carolina in the Morning

Steyn On-line ^ | September 16, 2018 | Mark Steyn

[Twotone]

This time last year, when Hurricane Irma swept up the spine of Florida, we tracked its progress in song, from "Key Largo" north to "The Swanee River". I'm not as familiar with the geography of the Carolinas, but, with Tropical Storm Florence afflicting our many readers in the neighborhood, I thought I'd take a trip to "Carolina In My Mind", as James Taylor put it. Which is not to be confused with "South Carolina On My Mind", which is the deputy state song of said jurisdiction. Carolina is one - or actually two - of the more hymned American states, in part because, like "Georgia On My Mind", the real estate can also double as a girl's name, even if in this case the states in question were named after a boy (King Charles I, or Carolus in Latin). Hence this song from 1914:

I miss you in the morning

When old bobwhite gives his call

Caroline, Caroline

And I miss you at the sunset

When the evening shadows fall

Caroline, Caroline

I miss you when the moonbeams

Out on the river shine

Oh, can't you hear me calling for you

Caroline?

[Bonemaker]

Are the Carolinas more messed up now than under Lincoln?