Tied up to concrete at the bottom of the quarry
And then Rose spilled the beans on the day that he died
But the Lord took him home in July
One night at the diner over eggs
Suspicion got the best of old Alderman Haint
One was seven and one was three
And I should've told him
Into a station that was flooded when they opened up the dams
With a tattoo on his heart that spelled out Caroline
So they could blast into the quarry
But if only to be closer to you, Caroline
Percy and I moved down the street until we lost two pretty girls
But that gold plated cross on her neck, it was real
That you were the one for me but I lied, but I lied
So they could still see our house
I should've told him that you were the one for me but I lied, but I lied
When two guys came up, pretty angry and drunk
And I'm still here at the banquet hall, at the banquet hall
And everyone thinks he drowned
And you don't get that kind of money
Where the gun went off in the Carolina rain
Alderman and Caroline owned the house right up the hill
Well it drifted into custody of a sheriff that was just deputized
And for every load of granite, we got a ton, don't worry
Where we laid those babies down
From pushing the meal
And we were in trouble
I met your sister and I married her in July
Over easy she showed me the length of her legs
I pulled into Mecklenburg on them trains
And I was down at the banquet hall
Now she don't live there no more
He owned an auto parts store off the interstate
A notice of eviction on the other hand
And broke their connections to the railway lines
He was silent but his rosary
To 'most any drifter who's looking for work is too weird
