Rose lived on the side of town Until her landlord up with two hundred dollar bills A notice of eviction on the hand Now she don't live no more And everyone thinks he
I pulled into Mecklenburg on them Into a station that was flooded when opened up the dams And broke their connections to the railway So could blast into the quarry And for load 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 gold plated cross on her neck, it was And you don't get kind of money 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 work is too I met your 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 pretty One was and one was three Alderman and owned the house right up the hill Where we laid babies down So they still see our house
Suspicion got the of old Alderman Haint He owned an auto parts store off the But the took him home in July And then Rose the beans on the day that he died And we were in
I told 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 that spelled out Caroline He was silent but his Well it drifted into custody of a sheriff that was deputized
And I was down at the banquet When two guys came up, pretty and drunk And I'm here at the banquet hall, at the banquet hall Where the gun went off in the Carolina In the Carolina rain, in the Carolina rain, oh,