From the recording Retrospective
Lyrics
Crooked Road
Sounds of the British isles and the coast of Africa
Echo down through the Blue Ridge hills
Hard times, lost love and deep river blues
Found in the songs and the guitar fills
Chorus
Music plays, down a crooked road
With the banjo pick and a fiddle bow
An old-time song on the radio
Music plays, down a crooked road
Wildflowers, whiskey stills and faded memories
Songs of life and death and better times
Switchbacks and hair-pin turns on highway 58
Lead you to the rhythms and the rhymes
Road goes round the mountain up to the Carter Fold
Where the circle is unbroken, bye and bye
At the birth of country music, the generations sing
Always gonna stay on the sunny side
Chorus
Music plays, down a crooked road
With the banjo pick and a fiddle bow
An old-time song on the radio
Music plays, down a crooked road
300 years of music still alive today
As close as the sound of nearby train
Front porch picking at the old country store
The songs and the memories still remain
Chorus
Music plays, down a crooked road
With the banjo pick and a fiddle bow
An old-time song on the radio
Music plays, down a crooked road