Detour

Detour - Tex Williams

Headed down

Life's crooked road

Lot of things I never knowed

And because of me not knowin'

I now pine Trouble got in the trail

Spent the next

Five years in jail Should have read

That detour sign

Detour there's a muddy road

Ahead detour paid no mind

To what it said Detour

Oh the bitter things

I find should have read that detour sign

When I got right to the place

Where it said "About Face"

I thought that all my worries were behind

But the farther I go more sorrow I know

Should have read

That detour sign

Detour there's a muddy road ahead detour

Paid no mind to what it said

Detour oh these bitter things I find

Should have read

That detour sign

When I got stuck in the mud

All my hopes dropped with a thud

I guess that my heart strings

Are made of twine

Have no willpower to get from

The hole that I'm in yet

Should have read

That detour sign

Detour there's a muddy road ahead

Detour

Paid no mind to what it said

Detour oh these bitter things I find

Should have read

Should have read that detour sign