Dolly Parton - The Carroll County Accident lyrics
Dolly Parton [Dolly Rebecca Parton] Pittman Center, Tennessee, U.S. 🇺🇸
[Dolly Parton - The Carroll County Accident lyrics]
Carroll County's pointed out as
Kind of square
The biggest thing that happens
Is the county fair
And I guess that's why it seemed
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
Now Walter Browning was a happy married man
And he wore a golden wedding
Ring upon his hand
But it was gone nobody knew
Just where it went
He'd 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
And no one even doubted what
She said was true
Cause she was well respected
In the county too
Now 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 rubberband
And inside the ring from
Walter Browning's hand
And 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 I took a sacred oath
That I would never tell
The secret of the Carroll County accident
Cause the county ordered dad
A marble monument
I lost him in the Carroll County accident
Kind of square
The biggest thing that happens
Is the county fair
And I guess that's why it seemed
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
Now Walter Browning was a happy married man
And he wore a golden wedding
Ring upon his hand
But it was gone nobody knew
Just where it went
He'd 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
And no one even doubted what
She said was true
Cause she was well respected
In the county too
Now 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 rubberband
And inside the ring from
Walter Browning's hand
And 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 I took a sacred oath
That I would never tell
The secret of the Carroll County accident
Cause the county ordered dad
A marble monument
I lost him in the Carroll County accident