Tom: Eb
Eb7 Ab
Detour there's a muddy road ahead
Bb7 Eb
Detour paid no mind to what I said
Eb Ab
Detour oh these bitter thing's I find
Eb Bb7 Eb Ab Eb
Should have read that detour sign
Eb
Headed down life's crooked road, Lot of thing's I never knowed
F#dim Bb7
And because of me not knowin' I now pine
Eb
Trouble got in the trail, spent the next five years in jail
Bb7 Eb Eb7
Should have read that detour sign
Eb7 Ab
Detour there's a muddy road ahead
Bb7 Eb
Detour paid no mind to what I said
Eb Ab
Detour oh these bitter thing's I find
Eb Bb7 Eb Ab Eb
Should have read that detour sign
Eb
When I got right to the place, where it said about face
F#dim Bb7
I thought that all my worries were behind
Eb
But the farther I go the more sorrow I know
Bb7 Eb Eb7
Should have read that detour sign
Eb7 Ab
Detour there's a muddy road ahead
Bb7 Eb
Detour paid no mind to what I said
Eb Ab
Detour oh these bitter thing's I find
Eb Bb7 Eb Ab Eb
Should have read that detour sign
Eb
When I got stuck in the mud, All my hopes dropped with a thud
F#dim Bb7
I guess that my heart strings are made of twine
Eb
Had no will power to get from the hole that I'm in yet
Bb7 Eb Eb7
Should have read that detour sign
Eb7 Ab
Detour there's a muddy road ahead
Bb7 Eb
Detour paid no mind to what I said
Eb Ab
Detour oh these bitter thing's I find
Eb Bb7 Eb Ab Eb
Should have read that detour sign
