Carry Me Carrie

"Carry Me Carrie"
"Carry Me Carrie"
Single by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
from the album Sloppy Seconds
B-side	"I Call That True Love"
Released	22 September 1972
Genre	Country rock
Length	4:18
Label	Columbia Records, CBS Records
Songwriter(s)	Shel Silverstein
Producer(s)	Ron Haffkine
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show singles chronology

"Carry Me, Carrie" is the third single by American country rock band Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, released in 1972.^[1] It appeared on the group's second album, Sloppy Seconds.^[2]

Record World said that "Shel Silverstein provides the material, a driving rhythm item that presents the other side of the 'Lean On Me' idea."^[3]

Track listing[edit]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Carry Me Carrie"	Shel Silverstein	4:18
2.	"I Call That True Love"	Shel Silverstein	2:59

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v t e Shel Silverstein
Books	Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot Back The Giving Tree Don't Bump the Glump! The Missing Piece Runny Babbit
Poem collections	Where the Sidewalk Ends A Light in the Attic Falling Up
Albums	Freakin' at the Freakers Ball Twistable Turnable Man Where the Sidewalk Ends A Light in the Attic
Songs	"25 Minutes to Go" "Boa Constrictor" "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" "Big Four Poster Bed" "A Boy Named Sue" "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'" "Marie Laveau" "The Mermaid" "One's on the Way" "Sylvia's Mother" "Carry Me Carrie" "The Unicorn" "Wrong Ideas"
Film soundtracks	Ned Kelly (1970) Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971)
Screenplays	Things Change (1988)

v t e Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
Billy Francis Ray Sawyer George Cummings Bobby Dominguez Jimmy Allen Dennis Locorriere Popeye Phillips Joseph Oliver John David Rik Elswit Jance Garfat John Wolters Bob "Willard" Henke Rod Smarr Walter Hartman
Studio albums	Doctor Hook (1972) Sloppy Seconds (1972) Pleasure and Pain (1978) Sometimes You Win (1979)
Compilations	Dr. Hook Revisited (1976) Greatest Hits (1980) The Essential Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show (2003)
Singles	"Sylvia's Mother" "Carry Me Carrie "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'" "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" "Only Sixteen" "A Little Bit More" "Walk Right In" "Sharing the Night Together" "All the Time in the World" "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" "Better Love Next Time" "Sexy Eyes"