[78-L] My Man From Caroline

Kristjan Saag saag at telia.com
Wed Dec 19 17:12:23 PST 2012


Does anyone have a clue about where Walt Donaldson's "My Man From 
Caroline" is from? Caroline County in Virginia? Or one of the Carolinas?
The song ends with the words

Nothing could be finer
than to be in Carolina
with my man from Caroline.

And there's a minstrel song, "Dandy Joe" that goes:

I've often heard it said of late
Dat Souf Carolina was de state,
Whar handsome Niggars bound to shine,
Like "Dandy Jim from Caroline."

So: is "Caroline" dialectal for Carolina?
Kristjan


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