The Carroll County Accident Chords by Big Tom, The Mainliners

[F#m] _ [G#] _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
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_ Carroll County's pointed [A] out as kind of square.
The biggest thing that [Em] happens [D] is the county fair. _
I guess that's why it's seen [A] such a big event. _
What we all call Carroll [D] County accident. _
The rack was on the highway just [A] inside the line. _
_ Walter Brining lost his life, [D] but for a time. _
It seemed that Mary Ellen Jones [A] would surely die. _
But she lived long enough for her [D] to testify. _
Now Walter Brining was a happy [A] married man. _
He wore a golden wedding ring [D] upon his hand. _
Now it was gone, nobody knew [A] just where it went.
He lost it in the Carroll County [D] [F#] accident.
[B] _
[E] Mary Ellen testified [B] he flagged her down. _
Said he was sick and could she [E] drive him into town. _
And no one even doubted what she [B] said was true. _
Cause she was well respected [E] in the county too. _
I went down to see the rack [B] like all the rest. _
The bloody seats, the broken [E] glass, the tangled mess. _
But I found something no one [B] else had even seen.
Behind the dash in Mary's [E] crumpled up machine.
[C#] _
[F#] A little matchbox circled [C#] with a rubber band.
_ And inside the ring from [F#] Walter Brining's hand.
It took a while to figure [C#] out just what it meant.
The truth about the Carroll [F#] County accident. _
By dark night I dropped the [C#] ring into a well.
_ And took a sacred oath [F#] that I would never tell.
_ The truth about the Carroll County [C#] accident.
_ Cause the county ordered that marble [F#] monument.
_ [C#] I lost him in the Carroll [F#] County accident.
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