Carroll County Accident

Carroll County's pointed out as kinda square
 The biggest thing that happens is the county fair
 I guess that's why it seemes 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 acciden... t