Uncle Dave Macon recorded a song called IN THE OLD CAROLINA STATE in 1926.

I copied the following transcription from here,

IN THE OLD CAROLINA STATE

In the old Carolina state where the sweet magnolias bloom,
There the picaninny darkies learn to hoe.
There is one I long to see, she was always true to me,
But I haven't seen her since we all were free.

Mid the cotton and corn [...]
And together in the fields we used to go
It's been twenty years or more, since I left the cabin door,
So I'm going back to see my darling Clo.

CHORUS: Darling Clo, darling Clo,
Your sweet face I soon shall see I know,
Where the sunny southern breeze fans the old Palmetto trees,
So I'm going back to see my darling Clo.

In that happy southern home, where the songs I loved to sing,
And the mockingbird is singing all the day,
She is waiting for her Joe, and I'm bound to see my Clo
For I know her hair has almost turned to gray.

The plantation is no more, and the tall lilac is o'er
For I she's creeping close to eighty-three,
But she'll wait till I come back, by the coon and possum track,
For I have not seen her since we all were free. CHORUS