The Carroll County Accident Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][C][G][C]

[Verse 1]
[C]Carroll County's
pointed out as [G]kind of square
The biggest thing that
happens is [C]the county fair
I guess that's why it seemed
like such a [G]big event
What we all call the Carroll
County [C]accident

[Verse 2]
The [C]wreck was on the highway
just in[G]side the line
Walter Browning lost his life [C]and for a [G]time[C]
It seemed that Mary Ellen
Jones [G]would surely die
But she lived long enough
for her to testify
[C]

[Verse 3]
Walter Browning was a happy [G]married man
And he wore a golden wedding
ring [C]upon his hand
But it was gone,
nobody knew just [G]where it went
He lost it in the Carroll County [C]accident[A]

[Verse 4]
[D]Mary Ellen testified he [A]flagged her down
Said he was sick and could
she drive him [D]into town
No one even doubted what
she [A]said was true
'Cause she was well
respected in [D]the county too

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

[Verse 6]
A little match box circled by a [B]rubber band
And inside,
the ring from Wal[E]ter Browning's hand
It took a while to figure out
just [B]what it meant
The truth about the Carroll County [E]accident

[Verse 7]
By [E]dark of night,
I dropped the ring [B]into a well
And took a sacred oath
that I [E]would never tell
The truth about the Carroll
County [B]accident
'Cause the County ordered
dad a [E]marble monument

[Verse 8]
I [B]lost him in the Carroll County [E]accident