Dolly Parton - The Carroll County Accident Lyrics
Carroll countys pointed out as kind of squareThe biggest thing that happens is the county fairAnd I guess thats why it seemed like such a big eventWhat we all call the carroll county accidentThe wreck was on the highway just inside the lineWalter browning lost his life and for a timeIt seemed that mary ellen jones would surely dieBut she lived long enough for her to testifyNow walter browning was a happy married manAnd he wore a golden wedding ring upon his handBut it was gone nobody knew just where it wentHed lost it in the carroll county accidentMary ellen testified he flagged her downSaid he was sick and could she drive him into townAnd no one even doubted what she said was trueCause she was well respected in the county tooNow I went down to see the wreck like all the restThe bloody seats, the broken glass, the tangled messBut I found something no one else had even seenBehind the dash in marys crumpled up machineA little matchbox circled by a rubberbandAnd inside the ring from walter brownings handAnd it took a while to figure out just what it meantThe truth about the carroll county accidentBy dark of night I dropped the ring into a wellAnd I took a sacred oath that I would never tellThe secret of the carroll county accidentCause the county ordered dad a marble monumentI lost him in the carroll county accident
