The Carroll County Accident-Porter Wagoner

[ti:The Carroll County Accident] [ar:Porter Wagoner] [al:The Essential Porter Wagoner] [offset:0] [00:00.70]The Carroll County Accident - Porter Wagoner [00:11.89]Carroll County＇s pointed out as kinda square [00:15.89] [00:16.95]The biggest thing that happens [00:18.95]Is the county fair [00:21.01] [00:21.83]I guess that＇s why it seemes [00:24.01]Like such a big event [00:26.01] [00:27.01]What we all call the Carroll County accident [00:31.02] [00:32.26]The wreck was on the highway [00:34.51]Just inside the line [00:36.63] [00:37.69]Walter Browning lost his life and for a time [00:41.89] [00:42.57]It seemed that Mary Ellen Jones would surely die [00:46.76] [00:47.70]But she lived long enough for her to testify [00:52.20] [00:53.21]Walter Browning was a happy married man [00:57.26] [00:58.01]And he wore a golden [00:59.57]Wedding ring upon his hand [01:02.38] [01:03.32]But it was gone nobody knew just where it went [01:07.51] [01:08.45]He lost it in the Carroll County accident [01:12.58] [01:13.95]Mary Ellen testified he flagged her down [01:18.07] [01:18.95]Said he was sick and could [01:21.01]She drive him into town [01:23.07] [01:24.32]No one even doubted what she said was true [01:28.58] [01:29.26]Cause she was well respected in the county too [01:33.39] [01:34.83]I went down to see the wreck like all the rest [01:38.89] [01:39.83]The bloody seats the broken [01:41.76]Glass the tangled mess [01:43.95] [01:45.08]But I found something no one else had even seen [01:49.64] [01:50.26]Behind the dash in Mary＇s crumpled up machine [01:54.32] [01:58.01]A little matchbox circled by a rubber band [02:02.33] [02:03.64]And inside the ring [02:05.39]From Walter Browning＇s hand [02:07.95] [02:08.64]It took a while to figure out just what it meant [02:12.45] [02:13.71]The truth about the Carroll County accident [02:17.64] [02:18.82]By dark of night I dropped the ring into a well [02:23.45] [02:24.08]And took a sacred oath that I would never tell [02:28.20] [02:29.33]The truth about the Carroll County accident [02:33.46] [02:34.46]Cause the county ordered [02:36.45]Dead a marble monument [02:38.70] [02:39.57]I lost him in the Carroll County accident