Carroll County Accident chords by Porter Wagoner

Carroll County Accident - Porter Wagoner

Intro: C

#1
G7
Carroll County's pointed out as kinda of square
                   C
The biggest thing that happens, is the county fair,
                     G7
I guess that's why it seemed like such a big event,
                  C
What we all call the Carroll County accident.

#2
G7
The wreck was on the highway just inside the line,
                  C
Walter Browning lost his life, and for a time
                   G7
It seemed that Mary Ellen Jones would surely die,
                   C
But she lived long enough for her to testify.

#3
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,
                 D
He lost it, in the Carroll County Accident.
#4
A
Mary Ellen testified that he flagged her down,
                     D
Said he was sick, and could she drive him into town,
               A
No one ever doubted what she said was true,
                   D
'Cause she was well respected in the county too.

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

#6
B7
A little match box circled by a rubber band,
                E
And inside the ring from Walter Browning's hand,
                 B7
It took awhile to figure out just what it meant,
                  E
The truth about the Carroll County accident.

#7
B7
By dark of night I dropped the ring into a well,
                  E
And took a sacred oath that I would never tell,
                  B7
The truth about the Carroll County accident,
                   E
Cause the County ordered Dad a marble monument,
 E
I lost him in the Carroll County accident.