Ernest Tubb – The Carroll County Accident (Guitar)
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Track 5 of 11 on the album "Saturday Satan - Sunday Saint" (1969)
[Intro]
C G7
C
[Verse 1]
C G7 Carroll County's pointed out as kinda square C The biggest thing that happens is the county fair G7 I guess that's why it seems like such a big event C What we all call The Carroll County Accident G7 The wreck was on the highway just inside the line C Walter Browning lost his life and for a time G7 It seemed like Mary Ellen Jones would surely die C But she lived long enough for her to testify G7 Walter Browning was a happy married man C And he wore a golden wedding ring upon his hand G7 But it was gone, nobody knew just where it went C He lost it in The Carroll County Accident G7 Mary Ellen testified he flagged her down C Said he was sick and could she drive him into town G7 No one even doubted what she said was true C 'cause she was well respected in the county, too
[Interlude]
G7 C
[Verse 2]
C G7 I went down to see the wreck like all the rest C The bloody seats, the broken glass, the tangled mess G7 But I found something no one else had even seen C Behind the dash in Mary's crumpled-up machine G7 A little matchbox circled by a rubber band C And inside, the ring from Walter Browning's hand G7 It took a while to figure out just what it meant C The truth about The Carroll County Accident G7 By dark of night, I dropped the ring into a well C And took a sacred oath that I would never tell G7 The truth about The Carroll County Accident C 'cause the county ordered Dad a marble monument G7 C I lost him in The Carroll County Accident