CARROLL COUNTY'S
POINTED OUT
AS KIND OF SQUARE
THE BIGGEST THING
THAT HAPPENS
IS THE COUNTY FAIR
I GUESS THAT'S
WHY IT SEEMED LIKE
SUCH A BIG EVENT
WHAT WE ALL CALL
THE CARROLL
COUNTY ACCIDENT
THE WRECK
WAS ON THE HIGHWAY
JUST INSIDE THE LINE
WALTER BROWNING
LOST HIS LIFE
AND FOR A TIME
IT SEEMED THAT
MARY ELLEN JONES
WOULD SURELY DIE
BUT SHE LIVED
LONG ENOUGH
FOR HER TO TESTIFY
WALTER BROWNING
WAS A HAPPY
MARRIED MAN
AND HE WORE A GOLDEN
WEDDING RING
UPON HIS HAND
BUT IT WAS GONE
NOBODY KNEW
JUST WHERE IT WENT
HE LOST IT
IN THE CARROLL
COUNTY ACCIDENT
MARY ELLEN TESTIFIED
HE FLAGGED HER DOWN
SAID HE WAS SICK
AND COULD SHE
DRIVE HIM INTO TOWN
NO ONE EVEN DOUBTED
WHAT SHE SAID
WAS TRUE
'CAUSE SHE WAS
WELL RESPECTED
IN THE COUNTY TOO
I WENT DOWN TO SEE
THE WRECK
LIKE ALL THE REST
THE BLOODY SEATS
THE BROKEN GLASS
THE TANGLED MESS
BUT I FOUND SOMETHING
NO ONE ELSE
HAD EVEN SEEN
BEHIND THE DASH
IN MARY'S
CRUMPLED UP MACHINE
A LITTLE MATCHBOX
CIRCLED
BY A RUBBER BAND
AND INSIDE THE RING
FROM WALTER
BROWNING'S HAND
IT TOOK A WHILE
TO FIGURE OUT
JUST WHAT IT MEANT
THE TRUTH ABOUT
THE CARROLL
COUNTY ACCIDENT
BY DARK OF NIGHT
I DROPPED THE RING
INTO A WELL
AND TOOK A SACRED OATH
THAT I WOULD NEVER
TELL
THE TRUTH ABOUT
THE CARROLL
COUNTY ACCIDENT
'CAUSE THE COUNTY
ORDERED DAD
A MARBLE MONUMENT
I LOST HIM
IN THE CARROLL
COUNTY ACCIDENT