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 don't 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 connections to the railway lines So could blast into the quarry And for every of granite, we got a ton, don't worry
One night at the diner eggs Over easy she 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 the meal
And I told 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 your sister and I her in July But if only to be closer to you,
Percy and I moved down the street until we lost two girls One was seven and one was and Caroline owned the house right up the hill Where we laid those down So they could see our house
Suspicion got the best of old Haint He owned an auto parts off the interstate But the Lord took him home in And then Rose spilled the beans on the day that he 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 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 that was just
And I was down at the banquet When two guys up, pretty angry and drunk And I'm still here at the hall, at the banquet hall Where the gun went off in the Carolina In the rain, in the Carolina rain, oh, Caroline