Porter Wagoner - The carroll county accident

^CCarroll County's pointed out as kind of s^G7quare The biggest thing that happens is the ^Ccounty fair I guess that's why it seemed like such a ^G7big event What we call the Carroll County ^Caccident

The ^Cwreck was on the highway just i^G7nside the line Walter Browning lost his life and ^Cfor a time It seemed that Mary Ellen Jones would ^G7surely die But she lived long enough for her to ^Ctestify

^CWalter Browning was a happy ^G7married man And he wore a golden wedding ring u^Cpon his hand But it was gone, nobody kneW just ^G7where it went He lost it in the Carroll County ^Caccident ^A7

^DMary Ellen testified he ^A7flagged her down Said he was sick and could she drive him ^Dinto town No one even doubted what she ^A7said was true 'Cause she was well respected in the ^Dcounty too

^DI went down to see the wreck like ^A7all the rest The bloody seats, the broken glass, the ^Dtangled mess But I found something no one else had ^A7even seen Behind the dash in Mary's crumpled ^Dup machine ^{B E}

A ^Elittle match box circled by a ^B7rubber band And inside the ring from Walter ^EBrowning's hand It took awhile to ^E7figure out just ^B7what it meant The truth about the Carroll County ^Eaccident

By ^Edark of night I ^E7dropped the ring in^B7to a well And took a sacred oath that I would ^Enever tell The truth about the ^E7Carroll County a^B7ccident Cause the County ordered dad a marble ^Emonument

I ^B7lost him in the Carroll County a^Eccident