Carolina Rain (Live In London)

Rose lived on the south side of town
'Til her landlord showed up with two hundred dollar bills
Notice of eviction in the other hand
She don't live in there no more
And everyone thinks he drowned

I pulled into Mecklenburg on them trains
To a station that was flooded when they opened up the dams
Broke their connections to them railway lines
So they could blast into the quarry
For every load of granite we got a tons of worry

One night at the diner over eggs
Over easy she showed me the lenght of her legs
But that gold platted cross on her neck, it was real
And you don't get that kind of money for pushing the meal

And I should have told him that she was the one for me
But I lied, but I lied
To most any drifter whose 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

Well, Percy and I moved down the street
'Til we lost two pretty girls
One seven and one was three
Alderman and Caroline owned a 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

We was in trouble
And I shoul've told him that she was the one for me
But I lied, but I lied
Tied up to concrete at the bottom of quarry
With a tattoo on his heart that spelled out "Caroline"
He was silent though his rosary well it
Drifted into custody of a sheriff that has just been 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 Caroline rain
In the Caroline rain
In the Caroline rain
Mmm, Caroline