Comin' Home (Left My Broken Heart in Carolina)

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"Comin' Home (Left My Broken Heart in Carolina)"
Comin' Home (Left My Broken Heart in Carolina) cover
Alone IV cover art
Demo by Rivers Cuomo
Album Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years
Recorded February 1993
Length 2:40
Writer(s) Rivers Cuomo
RC# 151
Producer(s) Rivers Cuomo
Status Demo circulating
Rivers Cuomo song chronology
"I Need Some Touch"
(RC# 150)
"Comin' Home (Left My Broken Heart in Carolina)"
(RC# 151)
"When You're Near Me"
(RC# 152)

Comin' Home (Left My Broken Heart in Carolina) is a pre-Blue demo by Rivers Cuomo.

Appearances

Overview

"Comin' Home" was recorded to 8-track by Cuomo in February of 1993.[1] Cuomo sings in a twangy, southern voice and plays a banjo throughout the song, in a style Karl Koch described as "goofy, country-folk". It was most likely never seriously considered for release on an album. Rivers Cuomo shared the song with fans online in the early 2000s. The demo includes the opening three seconds of Cuomo's next song, "When You're Near Me", appended to the end. The demo appeared on the compilation Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years in 2020.

The song is, most likely, unrelated to another Cuomo song, titled simply "Comin' Home", written in 2000.

Known recordings

Performer(s) Title Filename Date of recording Recording location Length Appeared on Notes
Rivers Cuomo Comin' Home (Left My Broken Heart in Carolina)
  • RC-1993-Comin_Home.mp3
  • 20 Comin' Home (Left My Broken Heart.mp3
February 1993 2:39
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Lyrics

I met a girl in Kalamazoo
She was doin' what you know she was doin'
She's got hair on her toes, hair in her nose
She's the one for me
Can't you see?
But when we walk away
She's got more games to play

Left my broken heart in Carolina
Forgot my broken toe in Alamo
Put the turkey in the oven, please dear
Now I won't be long, I'm comin' home

I met a girl in Kalamazow, she's got more toes than a cow
(Oh my God, I've got my britches on backwards)
She’s got hair on her toes, hair in her nose
(I don't know what to do with the rod on the reel)
Eggs in a basket, 20 cents a dozen
(How does it feel with the cockroach on your back, son?)
But when we get home, all my little brothers they moan and moan

Left my broken heart in Carolina
Forgot my broken toe in Alamo
Put the turkey in the oven please, dear
Now it won't be long, I'm comin' home

Now it won't be long, I'm comin' home

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