Ernest Tubb – The Carroll County Accident (Guitar)

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Carroll County's pointed out as kinda square

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The biggest thing that happens is the county fair

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I guess that's why it seems like such a big event

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What we all 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 like 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 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 matchbox circled by a rubber band

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And inside, the ring from Walter Browning's hand

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It took a while 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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I lost him in The Carroll County Accident