Rose lived on the south side of town

Until her landlord showed up with two hundred dollar bills

A notice of eviction on the other hand

Now she don't live there no more

And everyone thinks he drowned I pulled into Mecklenburg on them trains

Into a station that was flooded when they opened up the dams

And broke their connections to the railway lines

So they could blast into the quarry

And for every load of granite, we got a ton, don't worry One night at the diner over eggs

Over easy she showed me the length of her legs

But that gold plated cross on her neck, it was real

And you don't get that kind of money

From pushing the meal And I should've told him

That you were the one for me but I lied, but I lied

To 'most any drifter who's looking for work is too weird

I met your sister and I married her in July

But if only to be closer to you, Caroline Percy and I moved down the street until we lost two pretty girls

One was seven and one was three

Alderman and Caroline owned the house right up the hill

Where we laid those babies down

So they could still see our house Suspicion got the best of old Alderman Haint

He owned an auto parts store off the interstate

But the Lord took him home in July

And then Rose spilled the beans on the day that he died

And we were in trouble I should've told him that you were the one for me but I lied, but I lied

Tied up to concrete at the bottom of the quarry

With a tattoo on his heart that spelled out Caroline

He was silent but his rosary

Well it drifted into custody of a sheriff that was just deputized And I was down at the banquet hall

When two guys came up, pretty angry and drunk

And I'm still here at the banquet hall, at the banquet hall

Where the gun went off in the Carolina rain

In the Carolina rain, in the Carolina rain, oh, Caroline