Carroll County's pointed out as kinda square   The biggest thing that happens is the county fair   I guess that's why it seems 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 dead a marble monument      I lost him in the Carroll County accident