Carroll County Accident Chords

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[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[C]Carroll County's
pointed out is [G]kinda square
The biggest thing that
happens is the [C]county fair
I guess that's why it seemed
like such a [G]big event
What we all call a Carroll County ac[C]cident
The wreck was on the highway
just in[G]side the line
Walter Browning lost his life and [C]for a time
It seemed like Mary Ellen
Jones would [G]surely die
But she lived long enough
for her to [C]testify
Walter Browning was a
happy [G]married man
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 Cairo County [C]accident[A]
[D]Mary Allen 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 the [D]county too
So 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 & Mary's
crumpled [D]up [B]machine[E]
A little matchbox circled by a [B]rubber band
And inside the ring
from Walter [E]Browning's hand
It took a while to figure out
just what [B]it meant
The truth about the Carroll County [E]accident
By dark of night
I dropped the ring [B]into a well
And took a sacred oath
that I would [E]never tell
The truth about the Carroll
County [B]ac cident
Goes the county on a dead
marble [E]monument
Yes, I [B]lost it in the Carroll County [E]accident