Rose lived on the south of town Until her landlord showed up with two hundred bills A of eviction on the other hand Now she don't live no more And everyone he drowned
I pulled into on them trains Into a that was flooded when they opened up the dams And broke their connections to the railway So they blast into 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 plated cross on her neck, it was real And you don't get kind of money From the meal
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 sister and I married her in July But if only to be closer to you,
Percy and I moved down the street until we lost two pretty One was seven and one was Alderman and Caroline owned the house up the hill Where we laid babies down So they could still see our
Suspicion got the of old Alderman Haint He owned an auto parts off the interstate But the Lord took him home in And then Rose spilled the on the day that he died And we in trouble
I should've told him you were the one for me but I lied, but I lied Tied up to at the bottom of the quarry With a on his heart that spelled out Caroline He was silent but his Well it drifted into custody of a sheriff was just deputized
And I was down at the hall When two guys came up, pretty and drunk And I'm still here at the banquet hall, at the hall Where the gun went off in the Carolina In the Carolina rain, in the Carolina rain, oh,