Carroll County Accident Lyrics - Ernest Tubb

Carroll County's pointed out as kinda square 

The biggest thing that happens is a county fair 

I guess that's why it seemes like such a big event 

What we all call the Carroll County accident 

The wreck was on the highway just inside the line 

Walter Browning lost his life and for a time 

It seemed that Mary Ellen Jones would surely die 

But she lived long enough for her to testify 

Walter Browning was a happy married man 

And he wore a golden wedding ring upom his hand 

But it was gone nobody knew just where it went 

He lost it in the Carroll County accident 

Mary Ellen testified he flagged her down 

Said he was sick and could she drive him into town 

No one even doubted what she said was true 

Cause she was well respected in the county too 

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I went down to see the wreck like all the rest 

The bloody seats the broken glass the tangled mess 

But I found something no one else had even seen 

Behind the dash in Mary's crumpled up machine 

A little matchbox circled by a rubber band 

And inside the ring from Walter Browning's hand 

It took a while to figure out just what it meant 

The truth about the Carroll County accident 

By dark of night I dropped the ring into a well 

And took a sacred oath that I would never tell 

The truth about the Carroll County accident 

Cause the county ordered dad a marble monument 

I lost him in the Carroll County accident