Carol County is pointed as kind of square
The biggest thing that happens is the county fair
I guess thats why it seemed like such a big event
What we all called the Carol County Accident
The wreak lay on the highway just inside the line
Walter Browning lost his life and for a time
It seemed like Mary Allen Jones would surely die
But she lived long enough for her to testify.
Walter Browning was a happy married man
He wore a golden wedding ring upon his hand
But it was gone nobody knew just where it went
He lost it in the Carol County Accident.
Mary Allen 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
Cuz' she was well respected in the county too.
So I went down to see the wreak like 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 Carol 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 Carol County Accident
Because the county ordered Dad and Mom a monument.
Yes I lost him in the Carol County Accident.