Chords for The Accident - John Prine 1980 (stereo)

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_ _ [G] _ [C#] This corner up here.
Which [Em] one?
Come on up [G] here.
Yeah, you know that song, The Accident?
[Gm] Right.
This is it.
Oh yeah?
You have arrived.
_ [G] This is, [F#]
you know, like, how's [N] it go?
I can never remember the words to my songs.
I'll just start them up.
_ It's like, this is third and this is green.
Last night, was it?
Last night I saw an accident on the corner of third and green.
Two cars [A#] collided and I got excited just being part of that scene.
It was Mrs.
Tom Walker and her beautiful daughter, Pamela.
Her name wasn't Pamela, her name was Connie, she was there.
They were over there, but Pamela sounds better on the record. _
So it was Mrs.
Tom Walker and her beautiful daughter, Pamela, was driving the car.
They got hit [B] by a man in a [G] light blue sedan, who had obviously been to a bar. _ _
_ You know the chorus, don't you?
[E] You don't know how lucky you are.
Yeah, they could have run into that tree for that one, or any of these.
[G#m] _
_ _ Got struck by a bolt of lightning [G] and raced by a minority.
This lady lives on third and green and she don't even know it.
It's [A] more famous than the Grand [D] Canyon.
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[F#] _ [N] Last _ _ _ _ _
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night I saw an accident _ [D] on the corner [C] of [A] third [G] and green.
_ _ _ Two cars collided and I got excited [A] just being part of that [D] scene. _
_ [Gm] It was Mrs.
Tom Walker and [G] her beautiful daughter, _ Pamela, was driving [C] the car.
_ They got hit by a man in [G] a light blue sedan, [A] who had obviously [G] been to a bar. _
And [Em] they don't know how lucky [G] they _ are.
_ [C] They could have run into [D] that tree.
_ _ [G] Got struck by a bolt [Em] of [C] _ [Gm] _ [C]
lightning [G] and [D] raced by a [G] minority.
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_ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
It was a four-way stop dilemma.
_ _ _ _ [C] We all arrived at [G] the same _ time.
_ [D]
[G] I yielded to the man to the right of me.
[A] And he yielded it right [D] back to me.
_ _ _ [G] Well, a year went around and around and around,
till Pamela [A] was [B] finally [C] _ found.
_ [F] [C] Just then, the man [G] in the light blue sedan,
[D] dead _ Pamela's passenger [G] sat.
_ _ And [C] they don't know how lucky [G] they are. _
They [C] could have run into that [D] tree.
_ _ _ [G] Got struck by a bolt [C] of _ lightning and [G]
raced [D] by a [G] minority. _ _ _ _
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Pamela hit her head on the mirror.
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[C] Mrs.
Walker got a bump on the knee.
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_ _ _ The man hit himself in the face [C] and said,
[E] _ [A] _
[F#m] Why does this happen [D] to me? _ _ _
_ [G] Then the neighbors came out _ and they gathered [C] about,
[G] _ saying, Hey, [F] who hit who?
[C] Anyway, _ _ _ _ the police arrived _ _ [G] at a quarter to five.
They [D] pronounced all the victims [G] okay.
_ _ _ But [C] they don't know how lucky [G] they _ are.
[C] They could have ran into [D] that tree. _ _
_ [G] Got struck [B] by a bolt [C] of _ lightning [G] and raced [D] by a minority.
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