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                        The Accident  - John Prine
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Tabbed by: Dave S. 
Email: Prime-Prine@hotmail.com

Tuning: Standard

Artist: John Prine      
Album: Sweet Revenge
Year: 1973

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Last night I saw an accident
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on the corner of Third and Green
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two cars collided and I got excited
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just being part of that scene


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It was Mrs. Tom Walker and her beautiful daughter
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Pamela, was driving the car
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they got hit by a man in a lite blue sedan
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who had obviously been to a bar.



Chorus:
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They don't know how lucky they are
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they could have run into that tree
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got struck by a bolt of lightning
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and raped by a minority.


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It was a four way stop dilemma 
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we all arrived the same time
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I yielded to the man to the right of me 
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and he yielded it right back to mine
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well the yield went around and around and around 
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till Pamela finally tried
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just then the man in the light blue sedan
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hit Pamela's passenger side.



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Pamela hit her head on the mirror
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Mrs Walker got a bump on the knee
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the man hit himself in the face and said
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Why does this happen to me?
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the neighbors came out
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and they gathered about
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saying Hey! who hit who anyway?
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and the police arrived at a quarter to five
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and pronounced all the victims Okay



(Repeat Chorus)