Porter Wagoner - Carroll County Accident guitar chord

Carroll County Accident

By Porter Wagoner

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Carroll County's pointed out as kind of square

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The biggest thing that happens is the county fair

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I guess that's why we thought it such a big event

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What we call the Carroll County accident

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The wreck was on the highway just inside the line

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Walter Browning lost his life and for a time

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It seemed that Mary Ellen Jones would surely die

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But she lived long enough for her to testify

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Walter Browning was a happy married man

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And he wore a golden wedding ring upon his hand

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But it was gone, nobody knew just where it went

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He lost it in the Carroll County accident

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Mary Ellen testified that he flagged her down

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Said he was sick and could she drive him into town

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No one even doubted what she said was true

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'Cause she was well respected in the county too

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I went down to see the wreck like all the rest

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The bloody seats, the broken glass, the tangled mess

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But I found something no one else had even seen

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Behind the dash in Mary's crumpled up machine

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A little match box circled by a rubber band

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And inside the ring from Walter Browning's hand

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It took awhile to figure out just what it meant

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The truth about the Carroll County accident

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By dark of night I dropped the ring into a well

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And took a sacred oath that I would never tell

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The truth about the Carroll County accident

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Cause the County ordered dad a marble monument

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Yes, I lost him in the Carroll County accident