The Road Not Taken - Live - 1998/99

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