Rose lived on the south side of her landlord showed up with two hundred dollar bills A of eviction on the other hand Now she live there no more And everyone thinks he
I into Mecklenburg on them trains Into a station that was when they opened up the dams And their connections to the railway lines So they could blast into the And for every load of granite, we got a ton, don't
One night at the diner eggs Over easy she showed me the of her legs But gold plated cross on her neck, it was real And you don't get that of money pushing the meal
And I should've him That you the one for me but I lied, but I lied To 'most any drifter who's looking for work is too I met your and I married her in July But if only to be closer to you,
Percy and I moved down the street until we lost two girls One was and one was three Alderman and Caroline owned the house up the hill we laid those babies down So they still see our house
Suspicion got the best of old Alderman He owned an auto parts store off the But the took him home in July And then Rose spilled the on the day that he died And we were in
I told him that you were the one for me but I lied, but I lied Tied up to concrete at the of the quarry With a tattoo on his heart that out Caroline He was silent but his Well it drifted into custody of a that was just deputized
And I was down at the banquet When two guys came up, pretty and drunk And I'm still here at the banquet hall, at the banquet the gun went off in the Carolina rain In the Carolina rain, in the rain, oh, Caroline