The Accident Chords

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                        The Accident  - John Prine
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Tabbed by: Dave S.
Email: Prime-Prine@hotmail.com
 
Artist: John Prine
Album: Sweet Revenge
Year: 1973
 
 
[Verse 1]
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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
 
G
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
 
 
[Chorus]
C                              G
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
 
 
[Verse 2]
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It was a four way stop dilemma
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We all arrived the same time
  G
I yielded to the man to the right of me
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and he yielded it right back to mine
 
G
Well the yield went around and around and around
                    C
till Pamela finally tried
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Just then the man in the light blue sedan
    D                  G
hit Pamela's passenger side
 
 
[Chorus]
C                              G
They don't know how lucky they are
C                             D
They could have run into that tree
    G                   C
Got struck by a bolt of lightning
    G          D     G
and raped by a minority
 
 
[Verse 3]
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Pamela hit her head on the mirror
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Mrs Walker got a bump on the knee
G
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
G
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
 
 
[Chorus]
C                              G
They don't know how lucky they are
C                             D
They could have run into that tree
    G                   C
Got struck by a bolt of lightning
    G          D     G
and raped by a minority
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