Carolina in the Morning: 1976 | WonderPlay Music

Carolina in the Morning: 1976 — WonderPlay Music A 1922 song idea, reimagined as a sunlit 1976 AM-radio country-pop / soft-rock record. This WonderPlay version starts from Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn’s “Carolina in the Morning” and rebuilds the familiar homecoming idea with new lyrics, a new melody and a completely different musical era. Source / provenance • Source work: “Carolina in the Morning” — Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn • Historical publication: 1922 • WonderPlay melody strategy: FREE_GENERATION — the original melody was not used as a lock • No modern third-party recording, sample or arrangement was used as source material. AI-assisted music and visuals by WonderPlay Music / Y9 Records. Familiar ingredients. Unexpected music. — LYRICS Carolina in the morning Sunlight on the road Windows down, the air is warm A little gold across the fields Every mile keeps pulling me Closer to the way it feels I don't need a city light I don't need a crowded room Give me one long open road And a sky that's turning blue Carolina in the morning Feels like coming home to you Carolina in the morning Everything looks bright and new Let the radio keep playing Let the whole day take its time Carolina in the morning You are always on my mind Old white houses, passing signs Coffee cooling by my side Every turn I seem to take Feels like somewhere I can hide Maybe home is not a place Maybe home is who you find Maybe every road I know Was just leading me in time Carolina in the morning Feels like coming home to you Carolina in the morning Everything looks bright and new Let the radio keep playing Let the whole day take its time Carolina in the morning You are always on my mind If the evening finds us far away And the highway disappears I will still remember this Like a song across the years Morning light upon your face Summer moving through the pines For a little while the world Was exactly yours and mine Carolina in the morning Feels like coming home to you Carolina in the morning Everything looks bright and new Let the radio keep playing Let the whole day take its time Carolina in the morning You are always on my mind Carolina in the morning Sunlight on the road Carolina in the morning Take me home — WonderPlay Music reimagines familiar material through reconstruction, new musical direction, genre collision and AI-assisted production. Subscribe to hear what we reimagine next. #WonderPlayMusic #Y9Records #CarolinaInTheMorning #AIMusic #ReimaginedMusic #PublicDomainMusic