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Driving from Cleveland to Boston, thought of turning left at Buffalo
And going to see a girl who was living up in Toronto
And who I knew when I was a kid
Lord knows what we all did
I believe she was my one chance to marry young
To have some dark-haired daughters and some guitar-pickin' sons
And try and realize my plan to raise a real fine bluegrass band
I had an awful long way to go, and I had been travellin' alone
What if I'd showed up and said, «Why don't you come on to the show?»
Things might be different now
But what if she'd said no?
I believe she was my one chance to marry young
To have a fiddlin' daughter and a banjo-pickin' son
And try and realize my plan to raise a real fine bluegrass band
I never picked up the telephone
I never saw the shores of Lake Ontario
I never dialed that area code
I never saw the shores of Lake Ontario
I believe she was my one chance to marry young
To have a dobro daughter and a mandolin-pickin' son
And try and realize my plan to raise a real fine bluegrass band
Seems I'm always on my way back home. What's that they say makes a house a home?
I got nothing waiting for me there except my big old piano
It's not a matter of things gone wrong, only things left undone
Ask not for whom the bells ring. They shall never ring for me
And going to see a girl who was living up in Toronto
And who I knew when I was a kid
Lord knows what we all did
To have some dark-haired daughters and some guitar-pickin' sons
And try and realize my plan to raise a real fine bluegrass band
What if I'd showed up and said, «Why don't you come on to the show?»
Things might be different now
But what if she'd said no?
To have a fiddlin' daughter and a banjo-pickin' son
And try and realize my plan to raise a real fine bluegrass band
I never saw the shores of Lake Ontario
I never dialed that area code
I never saw the shores of Lake Ontario
To have a dobro daughter and a mandolin-pickin' son
And try and realize my plan to raise a real fine bluegrass band
I got nothing waiting for me there except my big old piano
It's not a matter of things gone wrong, only things left undone
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either metaphorically or literally a song about choosing your roads and supposing what could have been. Since not all acoustic folk is sad (see Flight of The Conchords bussssinesss tiiime), it's a very purposely mellow song. It could just be my own experiences influencing me, but this song is resentful as hell. I can't stand thinking about the women and what-ifs in life.