Rose lived on the south side of Until her landlord showed up with two dollar bills A of eviction on the other hand Now she don't live there no And everyone thinks he
I into Mecklenburg on them trains Into a station was flooded 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, worry
One night at the diner eggs Over she showed me the length of her legs But that gold plated on her neck, it was real And you don't get that kind of From the meal
And I should've him you were the one for me but I lied, but I lied To 'most any drifter who's looking for is too weird I met your sister and I married her in But if to be closer to you, Caroline
Percy and I down the street until we lost two pretty girls One was seven and one was Alderman and Caroline owned the house up the hill Where we laid those down So they could still see our
Suspicion got the best of old Haint He an auto parts store off the interstate But the Lord took him home in And then spilled the beans on the day that he died And we were in
I should've him that you were the one for me but I lied, but I lied Tied up to concrete at the of the quarry With a tattoo on his heart that out Caroline He was silent but his Well it drifted into custody of a sheriff that was deputized
And I was down at the hall 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