Carolina Rain

And you don't get that kind of money
But that gold plated cross on her neck, it was real
Tied up to concrete at the bottom of the quarry
Where we laid those babies down
I should've told him that you were the one for me but I lied, but I lied
He owned an auto parts store off the interstate
One night at the diner over eggs
When two guys came up, pretty angry and drunk

Well it drifted into custody of a sheriff that was just deputized
But the Lord took him home in July
To 'most any drifter who's looking for work is too weird

And I should've told him

And broke their connections to the railway lines
One was seven and one was three
So they could blast into the quarry

With a tattoo on his heart that spelled out Caroline
From pushing the meal
And we were in trouble

And for every load of granite, we got a ton, don't worry
I pulled into Mecklenburg on them trains
That you were the one for me but I lied, but I lied
And everyone thinks he drowned

Alderman and Caroline owned the house right up the hill
So they could still see our house
Into a station that was flooded when they opened up the dams
I met your sister and I married her in July
And I'm still here at the banquet hall, at the banquet hall
Now she don't live there no more
Where the gun went off in the Carolina rain

And I was down at the banquet hall
Percy and I moved down the street until we lost two pretty girls
Suspicion got the best of old Alderman Haint
Over easy she showed me the length of her legs
A notice of eviction on the other hand
And then Rose spilled the beans on the day that he died
He was silent but his rosary
But if only to be closer to you, Caroline