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 light blue sedan
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Who had obviously been to a bar.
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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 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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[Chorus]
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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".
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[Chorus]
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The Accident (Things Could Be Worse)
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| John Prine |
