From the recording Early Years
Lyrics
Caroline was a young girl just about seventeen in her prime and doing fine the sweetest thing you’d ever seen Caroline loved Jesus more that she loved her life people said that Caroline was sure to be a preacher’s wife but an unexpected tragedy happened to her one day (chorus) and poor Caroline just seventeen years old oh Caroline is walking on the streets of gold she had so much to look forward to but she don’t have to look to no more not Caroline
people sometimes ask me how loving God could be so mean and take someone like Caroline who just turned seventeen well the plans of God are a mystery that I don’t understand myself it seems like he’d leave Caroline and take somebody else but today she’ll stroll down streets of gold while she listens to the angels sing and poor Caroline just seventeen years old oh Caroline is walking on streets of gold she had so much to look forward to but she don’t have to look no more not Caroline.