Carroll County Accident chords by Porter Wagoner

Chords with lyrics

Carroll County Accident - Porter Wagoner

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#1
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Carroll County's pointed out as kinda of square
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The biggest thing that happens, is the county fair,
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I guess that's why it seemed like such a big event,
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What we all call the Carroll County accident.

#2
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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 that Mary Ellen Jones would surely die,
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But she lived long enough for her to testify.

#3
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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.
#4
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Mary Ellen testified that 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 ever doubted what she said was true,
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'Cause she was well respected in the county too.

#5
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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.

#6
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A augmentedA little match box circled by a rubber band,
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And inside the ring from Walter Browning's hand,
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It took awhile to figure out just what it meant,
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The truth about the Carroll County accident.

#7
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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.