Traveling down life's crooked road   Lots of things there that I never knowed   Because of me not knowing I now pine      Trouble got on my trail   I spent the next five years in a jail   I should have read that detour sign      Detour, there's a muddy road ahead   Detour, paid no mind to what it said   Detour, all these bitter things I find   Should have read that detour sign      Well, when I got to the place   Where that sign told me about face   Well, I figured all of my worries were behind      But the further I go   I find more chug holes there in the road   I should have read that detour sign      Detour, there's a muddy road ahead   Detour, paid no mind to what it said   Detour, all these bitter things I find   Should have read that detour sign      Well, I got stuck down in the mud   All my hopes fell there with a thud   I felt like my heartstrings were made of twine      I had no power to get   From that hole that I was in yet   I should have read that detour sign      Detour, there's a muddy road ahead   Detour, paid no mind to what it said   Detour, all these bitter things I find   Should have read that detour sign   Should have read that detour sign