Rose lived on the south of town Until her landlord showed up with two hundred dollar A notice of eviction on the other Now she live there no more And everyone he drowned
I pulled Mecklenburg on them trains a station that was flooded when they opened up the dams And broke their to the railway lines So they blast into the quarry And for load of granite, we got a ton, don't worry
One night at the over eggs easy she showed me the length of her legs But that gold cross on her neck, it was real And you don't get kind of money From pushing the
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 married her in But if only to be closer to you,
Percy and I moved down the street we lost two pretty girls One was and one was three Alderman and owned the house right up the hill Where we laid those babies So they could see our house
Suspicion got the best of old Haint He owned an parts store off the interstate But the Lord took him in July And Rose spilled the beans on the day that he died And we in trouble
I should've told him that you 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 it drifted into custody of a sheriff that was just deputized
And I was at the banquet hall two guys came up, pretty angry and drunk And I'm still 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