Carry Me Home (AC/DC song)

"Carry Me Home" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It is the b-side to the song "Dog Eat Dog" and was recorded at Vineyard Studios in England, along with "Love at First Feel", "Cold Hearted Man" and an early version of "Whole Lotta Rosie", "Dirty Eyes", which was released in the 1997 box set Bonfire. These recordings are from the only studio session outside of Australia while Mark Evans was in the band. The track Carry Me Home has never surfaced on any official album and can only be found on that single. This classifies it as a rare track to many fans. It is available, however, on many bootlegs.

The song was written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott. The character Scott's lyrics portray goes out drinking with a woman, and he is amazed at her ability to handle her liquor. In the chorus Scott's character, too drunk to move on his own, begs the woman to carry him home.

A professional reviewer did not hesitate to portray this piece as "the most violent song that the band ever wrote."

"As if the time passing by swept along Bon Scott towards his destiny, this song sounds like the exact opposite of the peaceful pace of hope that drove Bon's spirit in "Ride on", a famous anthem depicting Bon's attempts to escape his nightmares.

At the contrary, this song is harsch, violent, strident, striated of sharp guitar's riffs that gash a hopeless description of Bon's alcoholic tendencies; suffer and disillusion sum at third verse; no more delusion in these explicit words, a prelude, and hellish premonition of his own tragic future death." argues the reviewer.^[1]