Rose lived on the south of town Until her landlord up with two hundred dollar bills A of eviction on the other hand 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 their connections to the railway So they blast into the quarry And for every of granite, we got a ton, don't worry
One night at the diner eggs Over easy she showed me the length of her But that plated cross on her neck, it was real And you don't get kind of money pushing the meal
And I should've him you were the one for me but I lied, but I lied To any drifter who's looking for work is too weird I met your sister and I her in July But if only to be to you, Caroline
Percy and I moved down the until we lost two pretty girls One was seven and one was Alderman and Caroline owned the house right up the Where we laid those down So they could still see our
got the best of old Alderman Haint He owned an auto store off the interstate But the Lord took him in July And then Rose spilled the 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 up to concrete at the bottom of the quarry With a tattoo on his that spelled out Caroline He was silent but his Well it drifted custody of a sheriff that was just 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 the gun went off in the Carolina rain In the Carolina rain, in the Carolina rain, oh,