Rose lived on the south side of her landlord showed up with two hundred dollar bills A notice of eviction on the other Now she don't live there no And thinks he drowned
I pulled into Mecklenburg on them Into a station that was flooded when opened up the dams And broke their connections to the lines So they could blast the quarry And for load of granite, we got a ton, don't worry
One night at the over eggs Over easy she showed me the of her legs But gold plated cross on her neck, it was real And you don't get that kind of From pushing the
And I should've 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 only to be closer to you,
Percy and I moved the street until we lost two pretty girls One was seven and one was Alderman and Caroline owned the right up the hill Where we those babies down So they still see our house
got the best of old Alderman Haint He owned an auto parts store off the But the Lord him home in July And Rose spilled the beans on the day that he died And we in trouble
I should've told him that you the one for me but I lied, but I lied up to concrete at the bottom 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 came up, angry and drunk And I'm still at the banquet hall, at the banquet hall Where the gun off in the Carolina rain In the Carolina rain, in the Carolina rain, oh,