Carroll County Accident-Porter Wagoner

[ti:Carroll County Accident] [ar:Porter Wagoner] [al:Greatest Country Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Carroll County Accident - Porter Wagoner [00:11.79]Carroll county's pointed out as kinda square [00:15.21] [00:16.99]The biggest thing that happens is the county fair [00:20.21] [00:21.99]I guess that's why it seems like such a big event [00:25.65] [00:27.23]What we all call the Carroll county accident [00:30.68] [00:32.62]The wreck was on the highway just inside the line [00:35.97] [00:37.93]Walter browning lost his life and for a time [00:41.53] [00:42.92]It seemed that Mary Ellen Jones would surely die [00:46.79] [00:48.45]But she lived long enough for her to testify [00:51.70] [00:53.52]Walter browning was a happy married man [00:57.15] [00:58.75]And he wore a golden wedding ring upon his hand [01:02.44] [01:04.07]But it was gone nobody knew just where it went [01:07.93] [01:09.24]He lost it in the Carroll county accident [01:12.68] [01:14.71]Mary Ellen testified he flagged her down [01:17.99] [01:19.87]Said he was sick and could she drive him into town [01:23.84] [01:25.11]No one even doubted what she said was true [01:28.95] [01:30.42]'Cause she was well respected in the county too [01:33.89] [01:35.99]I went down to see the wreck like all the rest [01:39.46] [01:41.22]The bloody seats the broken glass the tangled mess [01:44.82] [01:46.48]But I found something no one else had even seen [01:50.07] [01:51.82]Behind the dash in Mary's crumpled up machine [01:55.28] [01:59.68]A little matchbox circled by a rubber band [02:03.29] [02:05.27]And inside the ring from Walter Brownian's hand [02:08.83] [02:10.52]It took a while to figure out just what it meant [02:14.08] [02:15.65]The truth about the Carroll county accident [02:19.05] [02:20.83]By dark of night I dropped the ring into a well [02:24.41] [02:26.33]And took a sacred oath that I would never tell [02:30.13] [02:31.72]The truth about the Carroll county accident [02:35.24] [02:36.82]'Cause the county ordered dad a marble monument [02:40.43] [02:42.16]I lost him in the Carroll county accident