The Carroll County Accident chords by Porter Wagoner
Intro 1
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C
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Verse 1
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Carroll County's
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pointed out as kind of square
The biggest thing that
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happens is the county fair
I guess that's why it seemed
G
like such a big event
What we all call the Carroll
C
County accident
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Verse 2
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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
for her to testify
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Verse 3
G
Walter Browning was a happy married man
And he wore a golden wedding
C
ring upon his hand
But it was gone,
G
nobody knew just where it went
C
A
He lost it in the Carroll County accident
Verse 4
D
A
Mary Ellen testified he flagged her down
Said he was sick and could
D
she drive him into town
No one even doubted what
A
she said was true
'Cause she was well
D
respected in the county too
Verse 5
D
I went down to see the
A
wreck like all the rest
The bloody seats, the broken glass,
D
the tangled mess
But I found something no one
A
else had even seen
Behind the dash,
D
in Mary's crumpled up machine
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E
Verse 6
B
A little match box circled by a rubber band
And inside,
E
the ring from Walter Browning's hand
It took a while to figure out
B
just what it meant
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The truth about the Carroll County accident
Verse 7
E
By dark of night,
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I dropped the ring into a well
And took a sacred oath
E
that I would never tell
The truth about the Carroll
B
County accident
'Cause the County ordered
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dad a marble monument
Verse 8
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E
I lost him in the Carroll County accident
The Carroll County Accident
Porter Wagoner
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