Rose lived on the south of town Until her landlord showed up with two hundred dollar A notice of eviction on the hand Now she live there no more And thinks he drowned
I into Mecklenburg on them trains Into a station that was flooded when they up the dams And their connections 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 Over easy she showed me the length of her But that plated cross on her neck, it was real And you get that kind of money From pushing the
And I told 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 sister and I married her in July But if only to be to you, Caroline
Percy and I moved down the street we lost two pretty girls One was and one was three and Caroline owned the house right up the hill Where we laid babies down So they could still see our
Suspicion got the best of old Alderman He owned an auto parts store off the But the Lord took him home in And then Rose the beans on the day that he died And we were in
I should've told him you were the one for me but I lied, but I lied Tied up to concrete at the bottom of the With a tattoo on his heart that spelled out He was but his rosary Well it drifted into custody of a sheriff that was deputized
And I was down at the hall When two guys came up, angry and drunk And I'm still here at the banquet hall, at the banquet Where the gun off in the Carolina rain In the rain, in the Carolina rain, oh, Caroline