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 he drowned
I pulled into Mecklenburg on them Into a station that was when they opened 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, don't
One night at the over eggs Over easy she showed me the of her legs But that gold plated on her neck, it was real And you don't get kind 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 your sister and I married her in But if only to be closer to you,
and I moved down the street until we lost two pretty girls One was seven and one was Alderman and Caroline the house right up the hill Where we laid those babies So they still see our house
Suspicion got the of old Alderman Haint He owned an auto parts off the interstate But the Lord him home in July And then spilled the beans on the day that he died And we were in
I should've told him that you the one for me but I lied, but I lied Tied up to at the bottom of the quarry With a tattoo on his that spelled out Caroline He was but his rosary Well it drifted into custody of a that was just deputized
And I was down at the banquet When two guys came up, pretty and drunk And I'm here at the banquet hall, at the banquet hall the gun went off in the Carolina rain In the Carolina rain, in the rain, oh, Caroline