Rose on the south side of town Until her landlord showed up with two hundred dollar A of eviction on the other hand Now she live there no more And thinks he drowned
I into Mecklenburg on them trains Into a station that was flooded when opened up the dams And broke their connections to the railway So they could into the quarry And for every load of granite, we got a ton, 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 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 looking for work is too weird I met sister and I married her in July But if to be closer to you, Caroline
Percy and I moved the street until we lost two pretty girls One was seven and one was Alderman and Caroline owned the right up the hill Where we laid babies down So they could still see our
Suspicion got the of old Alderman Haint He an auto parts store off the interstate But the Lord took him home in And Rose spilled 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 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 angry and 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 rain, oh, Caroline