Carol County's pointed out as kind of square
The biggest thing that happens is the county fair
I guess that's why it's seen such a big event
What we all call Carol County, Ike's the Dan
The wreck was on the highway, just inside the line
Walter Browning lost his life, but for a time
It seemed that Mary Ann Jones would surely die
But she lived long enough for her to testify
Now Walter Browning was a happy married man
He wore a golden wedding ring upon his hand
And I guess that's why it's seen such a big event
Now it was gone, nobody knew just where it went
He lost it in the Carol County Ike's the Dan
Mary Ann 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
I went down to see the wreck like all the rest
The bloody seats, the broken glass, the kind of mess
But I find something no one else had even seen
Behind the dash in Mary's crumpled-up machine
A little matchbox circled with 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 Ike's the Dan
By dark night I dropped the ring into a well
And took a secret oath that I would never tell
The truth about the Carol County Ike's the Dan
Cause the county ordered down a marble monument
I lost him in the Carol County Ike's the Dan