The Carroll County Accident

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[Verse 1]
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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 it seemed like such a big event
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What we call the Carroll County accident


[Verse 2]
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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


[Verse 3]
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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


[Verse 4]
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Mary Ellen testified 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


[Verse 5]
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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


[Verse 6]
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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


[Verse 7]
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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


[Outro]
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I lost him in the Carroll County accident