The Carroll Country Accident

[00:00.75]The Carroll Country Accident - Dolly Parton

[00:02.58]Lyrics by：Robert Bruce Ferguson

[00:03.83]Composed by：Robert Bruce Ferguson

[00:11.49]Carroll County's pointed out as kind of square

[00:16.87]The biggest thing that happens is the County fair

[00:22.16]And I guess that's why it seemed like such a big event

[00:27.85]What we all call the Carroll County accident

[00:33.40]The wreck was on the highway just inside the line

[00:39.24]Walter Browning lost his life and for a time

[00:44.39]It seemed that Mary Ellen Jones would surely die

[00:49.95]But she lived long enough for her to testify

[00:55.53]Now Walter Browning was a happy married man

[01:01.07]And he wore a golden wedding ring upon his hand

[01:06.67]But it was gone nobody knew just where it went

[01:12.21]He lost it in the Carroll County accident

[01:18.28]Mary Ellen testified he flagged her down

[01:23.45]Said he was sick and could she drive him into town

[01:29.02]And no one even doubted what she said was true

[01:34.53]'Cause she was well respected in the County too

[01:40.14]Now I went down to see the wreck like all the rest

[01:45.75]The bloody seats the broken glass the tangled mess

[01:51.32]But I found something no one else had even seen

[01:56.82]Behind the dash in Mary's crumpled up machine

[02:02.31]A little match box circled by a rubber band

[02:08.15]And inside the ring from Walter Browning's hand

[02:13.31]It took a while to figure out just what it meant

[02:18.90]The truth about the Carroll County accident

[02:24.44]By dark of night I dropped the ring into a well

[02:29.87]And I took a sacred oath that I would never tell

[02:35.58]The secret out the Carroll County accident

[02:40.93]'Cause the County ordered dad a marble monument

[02:46.59]I lost him in the Carroll County accident