Hornsby Bruce The Road Not Taken Lyrics

The Road Not Taken Lyrics

Down in the southwest Virginia town of Richlands

 I fell in love with an Appalachian girl

 She live in a long line of little row houses

 On the side of an old strip mining hill

 She walked along on the jagged ridge

 And looked as far as she could see

 But the hills out there go up and down

 You only see as far as the next big ridge

 

 Every time I see her face

 On the street in the hollow on the hill

 Another time and another place

 I feel her in my heart still

 Every time I see her face

 On the street in the hollow in the bend

 I see her in my mind and then

 I go down the road not taken... again

 

 Oh the coal dust settles on the window display

 They have to change it about every other day

 Some things never change way out here

 An outsider could always remain that way

 She walked along on the jagged ridge

 She told me she was thinking of me

 But every time I tried to take her away

 She always ran back to the rocks and the trees

 

 Every time I see her face

 On the street in the hollow on the hill

 Another time and another place

 I feel her in my heart still

 Every time I see her face

 On the street in the hollow in the bend

 I see her in my mind and then

 I go down the road not taken... again

 

 Oh I went back there after many years

 So curious and secretly

 As I looked on I held back a tear

 The road not taken overcoming me

 Oh I saw her she was sitting there

 Older, thinner on the front porch

 It seemed the light a little brighter there

 Or maybe I still carried the forgotten torch

 

 Every time I see her face

 On the street in the hollow on the hill

 Another time and another place

 I feel her in my heart still

 Every time I see her face

 On the street in the hollow in the bend

 I see her in my mind and then

 I go down the road not taken... again