The Carroll County Accident chords by Dolly Parton

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Intro 1

Verse 1

(Bob Ferguson)

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Verse 2
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Carroll County's pointed
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out as kind of square
The biggest thing that happens
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is the county fair
And I guess that's why it seemed
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like such a big event
What we all call the Carroll
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County accident
The wreck was on the highway
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just inside the line
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Walter Browning lost his life and  for a time
It seemed that Mary Ellen
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Jones would surely die
But she lived long enough
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for her to testify

Verse 3
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Now Walter Browning was
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a happy married man
And he wore a golden wedding
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ring upon his hand
But it was gone nobody knew
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just where it went
He'd lost it in the Carroll
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County accident

Verse 4
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Mary Ellen testified he flagged her down
Said he was sick and could
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she drive him into town
And no one even doubted
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what she said was true
Cause she was well respected
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in the county too

Verse 5
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Now I   went down to see the
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wreck like all the rest
The bloody seats, the broken glass,
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the tangled mess
But I found something no one
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else had even seen
Behind the dash in Mary's
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crumpled up machine

Verse 6
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A little matchbox circled
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by a rubberband
And inside the ring from Wal
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ter Browning's hand
And it took a while to figure
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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
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the ring into a well
And I took a sacred oath
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that I would never tell
The secret of the Carroll
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County accident
Cause the county ordered
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dad a marble monument