The Carroll County Accident Lyrics

The song The Carroll County Accident is performed by Dolly Parton in the album named The Tour Collection in the year 2008 .



(Bob Ferguson)

Carroll County's pointed out as kind of square
The biggest thing that happens is the county fair
And 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

Now 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'd 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
And no one even doubted what she said was true
Cause she was well respected in the county too

Now I went down to see the wreck like all the rest
The bloody seats, the broken gla*s, 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 rubberband
And inside the ring from Walter Browning's hand
And 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 I took a sacred oath that I would never tell
The secret of the Carroll County accident
Cause the county ordered dad a marble monument

I lost him in the Carroll County accident



Dolly Parton - The Tour Collection

Jul 2008

  1. Love Is Like a Butterfly
  2. Cowgirl and the Dandy
  3. Love, You're So Beautiful Tonight
  4. But You Know I Love You
  5. Most of All Why
  6. Falling out of Love with Me
  7. Bubbling Over
  8. Yellow Roses
  9. Fool for Your Love
  10. I Will Always Love You [Original Version]
  11. Because I Love You
  12. Sweet Music Man
  13. You Are
  14. Real Love
  15. Lovin' You
  16. I'll Make Your Bed
  17. Love with Me
  18. Hold Me
  19. Sweet Summer Lovin'
  20. Tie Our Love (In a Double Knot)
  21. (Your Life Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher
  22. Life's Like Poetry
  23. Help!
  24. Boulder to Birmingham
  25. Release Me
  26. Once in a Very Blue Moon
  27. In the Ghetto
  28. Harper Valley Pta
  29. Games People Play
  30. Put a Little Love in Your Heart
  31. Starting Over Again
  32. Even a Fool Would Let Go
  33. Great Balls of Fire
  34. Time for Me to Fly
  35. Save the Last Dance for Me
  36. Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On
  37. D-I-V-O-R-C-E
  38. The Carroll County Accident
  39. Detroit City
  40. Wings of a Dove
  41. Just the Way I Am
  42. In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
  43. What Will Baby Be
  44. Daddy's Working Boots
  45. JJ Sneed
  46. My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
  47. Daddy Come and Get Me
  48. Take Me Back
  49. Blackie, Kentucky
  50. Robert
  51. Chas
  52. My Tennessee Mountain Home
  53. Chicken Every Sunday
  54. Mama Say a Prayer
  55. I'm Doing This for Your Sake
  56. Early Morning Breeze
  57. Green Eyed Boy
  58. Daddy's Moonshine Still
  59. Daddy Was an Old Time Preacher Man
  60. Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8)
  61. Romeo
  62. I Really Don't Want to Know
  63. Islands in the Stream
  64. Full Circle
  65. Rockin' Years
  66. Whenever Forever Comes
  67. When You Tell Me That You Love Me
  68. Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
  69. I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby
  70. Everything Is Beautiful (In Its Own Way)
  71. Lovesick Blues
  72. I Still Miss Someone
  73. I Feel the Blues Movin' In
  74. Love Is Strange
  75. Baby It's Cold Outside
  76. When I Get Where I'm Going
  77. More Where That Came From
  78. Hush-A-Bye Hard Times
  79. A Violet and a Rose
  80. Jeannie's Afraid of the Dark

The Carroll County Accident