The Carroll County Accident - Porter Wagoner

Carroll County’s pointed out as kinda square\nThe biggest thing that happens is a county fair\nAnd I guess that’s why it seemes like such a big event\nWhat we all call the Carroll County accident\nThe wreck was on the highway just inside the line\nWalter Browning lost his life and for a time\nIt seemed that Mary Ellen Jones would surely die\nBut she lived long enough for her to testify\nNow Walter Browning was a happy married man\nAnd he wore a golden wedding ring upom his hand\nBut it was gone nobody knew just where it went\nHe’d lost it in the Carroll County accident\nMary Ellen testified he flagged her down\nSaid he was sick and could she drive him into town\nAnd no one even doubted what she said was true\nCause she was well respected in the county too\nNow I went down to see the wreck like all the rest\nThe bloody seats the broken glass the tangled mess\nBut I found something no one else had even seen\nBehind ther dash in Mary’s crumpled up machine\nA little matchbox circled by a rubber band\nAnd inside the ring from Walter Browning’s hand\nIt took a while to figure out just what it meant\nThe truth about the Carroll County accident\nBy dark of night I dropped the ring into a well\nAnd I took a sacred oath that I would never tell\nThe secred of the Carroll County accident\nCause the county ordered dad a marble monument\nI lost him in the Carroll County accident