Rose lived on the south of town Until her showed up with two hundred dollar bills A notice of on the other hand Now she don't there no more And everyone thinks he
I pulled Mecklenburg on them trains Into a station that was flooded when they opened up the And broke their to the railway lines So they could blast the quarry And for every load of granite, we got a ton, worry
One night at the diner over easy she showed me the length of her legs But that plated cross on her neck, it was real And you get that kind of money From pushing the
And I told him you were the one for me but I lied, but I lied To 'most any drifter looking for work is too weird I met your and I married her in July But if only to be to you, Caroline
Percy and I moved down the until we lost two pretty girls One was seven and one was Alderman and owned the house right up the hill we laid those babies down So they could see our house
got the best of old Alderman Haint He owned an auto parts off the interstate But the took him home in July And then Rose spilled the beans on the day that he And we in trouble
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 on his heart that spelled out Caroline He was but his rosary Well it drifted into custody of a sheriff was just deputized
And I was down at the hall two guys came up, pretty angry and drunk And I'm still at the banquet hall, at the banquet hall Where the gun off in the Carolina rain In the Carolina rain, in the Carolina rain, oh,