Carry Me Carrie - Dr. Hook
Lyrics

Second street and Broadway
Sittin' in a doorway
Head held in his hands
Looked to all the world
Like he was prayin'.
Foot wrapped in old rag,
Bottle in a brown bag,
I saw him trying to stand
Then I heard the words
that he was sayin'

He said...

Come on, Carrie,
Carry me a little farther
Come on, Carrie,
Carry me one more mile.
I don't know where it's leadin' to,
But I know I can make it if I lean on you,
So come on, Carrie,
Carry me a little
I carried you, now carry me a little
Come on, Carrie, carry me a little while.

Well he struggled to his feet
And staggered down the street
To the window of a five and dime
He stood and laughed a while at his reflection.
And then I heard him shoutin'
Something 'bout a mountain
He could surely climb
If she was only there
To point the right direction.

But she ain't, no, but she ain't, no....

He said
Come on, Carrie,
Carry me a little farther
Come on, Carrie,
Carry me one more mile
I don't know where it's leadin' to,
But I know I can make it if I lean on you,
So come on, Carrie,
Carry me a little.
I carried you, now carry me a little
Come on, Carrie,
Carry me a little while....


Trivia

The founding core of the band consisted of three friends--George Cummings, Ray Sawyer, Billy Francis--who had played up and down the East Coast and into the Midwest, ending up in New Jersey one by one, there adding future lead vocalist, Dennis Locorriere. Told by a club owner that they needed a name to put on a poster in the window of his establishment, Cummings made a sign: "Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: Tonic for the Soul." The name was inspired by the traveling medicine shows of the old West. To this day, frontman Ray Sawyer is mistakenly considered Dr. Hook because of the eyepatch he wears as the result of a near-fatal 1967 car accident in Oregon. Dr. Hook Band Members:

Dennis Locorriere (vocals, guitar, bass, harmonica)
Ray Sawyer (vocals, guitar)
George Cummings (lead and steel guitars)
Billy Francis (keyboards)
Popeye Phillips (drums)
John David [aka Jay] (drums)
Jance Garfat (bass)
Rik Elswit (lead guitar)
John Wolters (drums)
Bob 'Willard' Henke (guitar)
Rod Smarr (guitar)

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