The Road Not Taken Lyrics - Bruce Hornsby

Down in the southwest Virginia town of Richlands 

I fell in love with an Appalachian girl 

She lived in a long line of little row houses 

On the side of an old strip mining hill 

Oh, she walked along on the jagged ridge 

And looked as far as she could see 

But the hills out there so 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 'round the bend 

I see her in my mind and then 

I go down the road not taken again, taken again 

Oh, the coal dust settles on the window display 

Gotta change it about every other day 

Oh, some things never change way out here 

But outsider could always remain that way 

Oh, she walked along on the jagged ridge 

She told me she was sittin' there thinkin' of me 

But every time I tried to take her away 

She alway 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 'round the bend 

I see her in my mind and then 

I go down the road not taken again 

Oh, not taken, taken again, not taken again 

Oh, I went back there after many years 

Oh, so, so curious and so secretly 

Oh, as I looked on, I held back a tear 

Oh, the road not taken overcoming me 

Oh, I saw her, she was sittin' 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 see her in my heart still 

Every time I see her face 

On the street in the hollow 'round the bend 

I see her in my mind and then 

I go down the road not taken again 

Oh, I go down the road not taken, yeah 

Taken again not taken, taken again 

Yeah yeah yeah