Detour:Patti Page.
#5 in 1951.
(Capo 1st fret.)
CHORUS:
G C
Detour, there's a muddy road ahead,
G
detour, paid no mind to what it said.
C
Detour, oh, these bitter things I find,
D G
should have read, that detour sign.
#1.
G
Headed down life's crooked road, lots of things
D
I never knowed, because of me not knowin', I now pine.
G G7 C
Trouble got in the trail, spent the next five years in jail..
D G
should have read that detour sign.
CHORUS:
G C
Detour, there's a muddy road ahead,
G
detour, paid no mind to what it said.
C
Detour, oh, these bitter things I find,
D G
should have read, that detour sign.
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#2.
G
When I got right to the place where it said, 'About Face,'
D
I thought that all my worries were behind.
G G7 C
But the farther I go, the more sorrow I know..
D G
should have read that detour sign.
CHORUS:
G C
Detour, there's a muddy road ahead,
G
detour, paid no mind to what it said.
C
Detour, oh, these bitter things I find,
D G
should have read, that detour sign.
#3.
G
When I got stuck in the mud all my hopes
dropped with a thud..
D
I guess that my heart strings are made of twine.
G G7 C
Have no willpower to get, from the hole that I'm in yet..
D G
should have read that detour sign.
CHORUS:
G C
Detour, there's a muddy road ahead,
G
detour, paid no mind to what it said.
C
Detour, oh, these bitter things I find,
D G
should have read, that detour sign.
OUTRO:
D G
Should have read that detour sign.
D C G
Should have read that detour sign.
Detour!
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
