Carolina Rain
Author: Ryan Adams

Official Appearance:

 29 -- Ryan Adams

Unofficial Appearance:

 N/A

Played Live:

 05/16/07
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09/21/07
Lyrics: 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 dam
  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 of 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 meal
   
  I should've told him that you were the one for me,
  But I lied, But I lied,
  To most any drifter whose looking for work is too weird
  I met Percy 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 was 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
  drifted into the 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

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