Lyr Req: Carolina Star (Hugh Moffat)

Subject: Carolina Star
From: GUEST,Laura Plummer
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 07:17 AM

Can anyone help me with background information on this song? I have tried many lyrics sites but can't find any info on the songwriter/s.

The chorus goes
Oh Carolina even the stars get lonesome now and then
Oh Carolina don't you worry he'll be coming home again


hoping Mudcat can come to the rescue - again!

best wishes to all Mudcat fans

Subject: RE: Carolina Star
From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 09:35 AM

It is by Hugh Moffatt, who also wrote Rose Of My Heart. I am not likely to have any time before the weekend, but if no one beats me to it (Go ahead!) I will try to get to it then.

Subject: RE: Carolina Star
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 09:54 AM

Carolina Star

A beautiful song,as is Rose of My Heart, by the same author.

Our bluegrass group, The Back40, do both songs

Rich

Subject: Lyr Add: CAROLINA STAR (Hugh Moffat)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 09:07 PM

Lyrics copied from http://bluegrasslyrics.com/all_song.cfm-recordID=sp231.htm
Additional information from allmusic.com

CAROLINA STAR
(Hugh Moffat)

Back in the hills, oh, slow rollin' hills,
Where North Carolina comes close to the stars,
There's livin' a lady who's shinin' so high,
They call her the "Carolina Star."

She works at the factory from Monday through Friday.
She's raisin' three daughters alone.
Their daddy's away. He's chasing a dream.
They're waitin' for the day that he comes home.

Oh, Carolina,
Even stars get lonesome now and then.
Oh, Carolina,
Don't you worry. He'll be comin' home again.

He's playin' his songs in Nashville.
He's pickin' for tips in a bar.
He's broke and all alone, but he ain't ready to come home.
He's gonna be a country singin' star.

Sometimes she wakes up just thinking of him.
She remembers him beside her in the night,
While out across those hills that old moon is settled in,
And those Carolina stars are shining bright.

Yes, he loves you and he's comin' home again.

[As recorded by Tony Rice. Also recorded by Chesapeake, Hugh Moffatt, Rig the Jig, Earl Scruggs, John Starling, and The Lee Valley String Band.]