Go to work for the old man couldn't finish school No, not me I had bigger plans stubborn as a mule I didn't listen to no one that's the way I learn I wonder where I'd be now if I'd only turned Down the road not taken And married the girl back home Down the path forsaken And not like some rolling stone Would I only trade regrets If I could retrace my steps And go down the road not taken Got a box full of pictures that I don't show my wife She won't catch me in a daydream of another life Momma's sick and my dad's retired, I call them on the phone To tell me where I'd be now if I'd only gone Down the road not taken And married the girl back home Down the path forsaken And not like some rolling stone Would I only trade regrets If I could retrace my steps (if I could retrace my steps) And go down the road not taken Down the road (down the road) not taken And married the girl back home Down the path forsaken And not like some rolling stone Would I only trade regrets If I could retrace my steps (if I could retrace my steps) And go down the road not taken Down the road (down the road) not taken And married the girl back home Down the path forsaken And not like some rolling stone Would I only trade regrets If I could retrace my steps (If I could retrace my steps) And go down the road not taken