Old Dirt Road

Old dirt road winding up the valley

Brought me far from any home I'd known

I left in youth my friends and family

For to see the world and for to roam

Well, it's one patch much like any other

There's some truth to what they tell

Anywhere you find friends and lovers

You miss them when you say farewell

(Oh, oh) old dirt road

(Oh, oh)

I'll go down to desert country

See the people in my old town

Listen to the river bubbling

And watch the mountain burn

I think I'll go and see my father

One more time before he's gone

Tell my mother not to worry

You know I'll manage, I'll carry on

(Old dirt road) old dirt road

(Old dirt road)

In the morning, I take some coffee

In the night time, I drink the wine

And all the lovers who've laid beside me

Pass before my darkened mind

And when I look into the mirror

It's marred a little from lost love and shame

It's not some faithful reflection

But it's seen some use all the same

(Old dirt road) old dirt road

(Old dirt road)

Old dirt road found me running

Neither fast, neither slow

Sometimes patient, sometimes demanding

Took me somewhere I never thought I'd go

Old dirt road has left me standing

Wondering just where I've been

Staring out onto the wilderness

Listening for my trembling dream

Old dirt road (old dirt road)

(Old dirt road)

The future has come so quickly

Just as I was pondering the past

What spread out ahead of me

Old dirt road saw it wouldn't last

I'd have been back, found what I left there

Old dirt road, if I'd only known

Away I'd have given, what I gathered

And had the harvest from what I've sown

(Old dirt road) old dirt road

(Oh, oh)oOld dirt road