The Road Not Taken

<br>Down in the southwest Virginia town of Richlands<br>I fell in love with an Appalachian girl<br>She lived in a long line of little row houses<br>On the side of an old strip mining hill<br>She walked along on the jagged ridge<br>And looked as far as she could see<br>But the hills out there so up and down<br>You only see as far as the next big ridge<br><br>Everytime I see her face<br>On the street in the hollow of on the hill<br>Another time and another place<br>I feel her in my heart still<br>Everytime I see her face<br>On the street in the hollow in the bend<br>I see her in my mind and then<br>I go down the road not taken...again<br><br>Oh the coal dust sttles on the window display<br>They have to change it about every other day<br>Some things never change way out here<br>An outsider could always remain that way<br>She walked along on the jagged ridge<br>She told me she was thinking of me<br>But every time I tried to take her away<br>She alway ran back to the rocks and the trees<br><br>Everytime I see her face<br>On the street in the hollow of on the hill<br>Another time and another place<br>I feel her in my heart still<br>Everytime I see her face<br>On the street in the hollow in the bend<br>I see her in my mind and then<br>I go down the road not taken...again<br><br>Oh I went back there after many years<br>So curious and so secretly<br>As I looked on I held back a tear<br>The road not taken overcoming me<br>Oh I saw her she was sitting there<br>Older, thinner on the front porch<br>It seemed the light a little brighter there<br>Or maybe I still carried the forgotten torch<br><br>Everytime I see her face<br>On the street in the hollow of on the hill<br>Another time and another place<br>I feel her in my heart still<br>Everytime I see her face<br>On the street in the hollow in the bend<br>I see her in my mind and then<br>I go down the road not taken...again