# Carroll County Accident
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carroll-county-accident/38087
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 24, 2000, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carroll-county-accident/38087 "2000-10-24T07:46:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2000, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carroll-county-accident/38087/1 "2000-10-24T07:46:43Z")
I remember my mother wearing the record out thirty years ago. What the hell is this dopey Porter Waggoner song about? I remember something about a guy throwing a ring down a well, swearing never to tell the truth about the Carroll County Accident.
Sir
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### Author:  [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2000, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carroll-county-accident/38087/2 "2000-10-24T17:53:20Z")
Lyrics of [The Carroll County Accident](http://dolly.simplenet.com/archives/lyrics/carrollca.shtml) (written by Bob Ferguson). It’s about a child covering up his dead father’s extramarital affair. How touching.
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### Author:  [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2000, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carroll-county-accident/38087/3 "2000-10-26T08:01:18Z")
Thank you, bibliophage.
Sir
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2000, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carroll-county-accident/38087/4 "2000-10-30T06:20:35Z")
Interesting parallel. In “Ode to Billy Joe,” Billy Joe and the narrator throw “something” off a bridge. (In the movie, we find out that it’s a doll.) The song references Carroll County, and Bobbie Gentry said (at the time of the hit) that she’d never tell why Billy Joe jumped of the Tallahatchie Bridge.