Rose lived on the side 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 station was flooded when they opened up the dams And broke their connections to the railway So they could blast the quarry And for load of granite, we got a ton, don't worry
One night at the diner over Over easy she me the length of her legs But that gold plated cross on her neck, it was And you don't get that kind of From pushing the
And I should've him That you were the one for me but I lied, but I 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 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 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 told him that you the one for me but I lied, but I lied Tied up to concrete at the of the quarry With a on his heart that spelled out Caroline He was but his rosary Well it drifted into custody of a that was just deputized
And I was down at the banquet When two guys up, pretty angry and drunk And I'm still here at the banquet hall, at the banquet the gun went off in the Carolina rain In the Carolina rain, in the rain, oh, Caroline