Carroll County Accident

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Carroll County's pointed out as 
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kinda of square
The biggest thing that happens, is 
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the county fair,
I guess that's why it seemed like 
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such a big event,
What we all call the Carroll County 
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accident.

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The wreck was on the highway just 
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inside the line,
Walter Browning lost his life, and 
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for a time
It seemed that Mary Ellen Jones 
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would surely die,
But she lived long enough for her to
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 testify.

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Walter Browning was a happy married 
man,
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And he wore a golden wedding ring 
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upon his hand,
But it was gone, nobody knew just 
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where it went,
He lost it, in the Carroll County 
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Accident.

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Mary Ellen testified that he flagged
 her down,
Said he was sick, and could she 
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drive him into town,
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No one ever doubted what she said 
was true,
'Cause she was well respected in the
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 county too.

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

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A little match box circled by a 
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rubber band,
And inside the ring from Walter 
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Browning's hand,
It took awhile to figure out just 
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what it meant,
The truth about the Carroll County 
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accident.

#7
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By dark of night I dropped the 
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ring into a well,
And took a sacred oath that I would 
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never tell,
The truth about the Carroll County 
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accident,
Cause the County ordered Dad a 
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marble monument,
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I lost him in the Carroll County 
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accident.