Rose lived on the south of town Until her landlord showed up with two dollar bills A notice of eviction on the hand Now she live there no more And everyone thinks he
I pulled into on them trains a station that was flooded when they opened up the dams And broke their connections to the lines So they blast into the quarry And for load of granite, we got a ton, don't worry
One night at the diner over easy she showed me the length of her legs But that gold plated cross on her neck, it was And you don't get that kind of pushing the meal
And I told him That you were the one for me but I lied, but I To 'most any drifter who's looking for work is too I met your sister and I her in July But if only to be closer to you,
Percy and I moved down the street until we two pretty girls One was and one was three Alderman and Caroline the house right up the hill we laid those babies down So could still see our house
Suspicion got the best of old Alderman He an auto parts store off the interstate But the Lord 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 spelled out Caroline He was but his rosary Well it drifted into custody of a sheriff that was just
And I was down at the hall When two guys came up, pretty angry and And I'm here at the banquet hall, at the banquet hall the gun went off in the Carolina rain In the Carolina rain, in the rain, oh, Caroline