Rose lived on the side of town Until her landlord up with two hundred dollar bills A notice of on the other hand Now she live there no more And thinks he drowned
I pulled Mecklenburg on them trains Into a station that was when they opened up the dams And broke their connections to the lines So they could blast into the And for every load of granite, we got a ton, worry
One at the diner over eggs Over easy she me the length of her legs But that plated cross on her neck, it was real And you get that kind of money pushing the meal
And I told him you were the one for me but I lied, but I lied To 'most any who's 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 down the street until we lost two girls One was seven and one was Alderman and Caroline owned the house up the hill Where we laid those down So could still see our house
Suspicion got the best of old Haint He an auto parts store off the interstate But the Lord took him in July And Rose spilled the beans on the day that he died And we in trouble
I should've told him that you were the one for me but I lied, but I Tied up to concrete at the of the quarry With a tattoo on his heart that spelled out He was silent but his Well it into custody of a sheriff that was just deputized
And I was down at the hall When two guys came up, pretty angry and And I'm still here at the banquet hall, at the hall Where the gun went off in the Carolina In the Carolina rain, in the rain, oh, Caroline