Rose lived on the south of town Until her landlord showed up with two dollar bills A notice of eviction on the other Now she live there no more And everyone thinks he
I pulled into Mecklenburg on trains Into a that was flooded when they opened up the dams And broke their connections to the lines So could blast into the quarry And for every load of granite, we got a ton, don't
One night at the diner over Over easy she me the length of her legs But that plated cross on her neck, it was real And you don't get that kind of From pushing the
And I told him That you were the one for me but I lied, but I To 'most any drifter who's looking for is too weird I met your sister and I married her in 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 owned the house right up the hill Where we laid those babies 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 were in
I should've him that you were 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 spelled out He was silent but his Well it into custody of a sheriff that was just deputized
And I was down at the banquet When two came up, pretty angry and drunk And I'm still at the banquet hall, at the banquet hall Where the gun went off in the rain In the Carolina rain, in the rain, oh, Caroline