Rose lived on the south side of 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 Mecklenburg on them trains Into a station that was flooded they opened up the dams And broke connections to the railway lines So they blast into 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 gold plated cross on her neck, it was And you don't get 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 who's looking for work is too I met your and I married her in July But if only to be to you, Caroline
Percy and I moved down the street until we two pretty girls One was seven and one was Alderman and Caroline owned the house up the hill Where we those babies down So could still see our house
Suspicion got the of old Alderman Haint He owned an auto parts store off the But the Lord took him in July And then Rose spilled the beans on the day that he And we were in
I should've told him that you were the one for me but I lied, but I Tied up to at the bottom 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 hall When two guys came up, 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 Carolina rain, in the rain, oh, Caroline