Biography:
Elton Britt (June 27, 1913 – June 22, 1972), was an American country music guitarist and singer-songwriter. He recorded over 600 sides and 60 albums for RCA and other labels in more than a 30-year span, and is best known for such hit songs (several of which he wrote or co-wrote) as "Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)," "Detour," "Chime Bells," "Maybe I'll Cry Over You," "Pinto Pal," and the million-selling wartime hit "There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere".
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Date: 9/25/96; 1:36:53 PM
From: [email protected] (Gene L. Graham)
Subject: DETOUR
DETOUR
Recorded by Elton Britt
Written by Paul Westmoreland
[D] Headed down life's [D7] crooked [D] road
Lot of things I [D7] never [D] knowed
And the cause of me not [D7] knowin', I now [A] pine
Trouble [D] got in the [D7] trail
Spent the [G] next five years in [G7] jail
Should have [A] read - that [A7] DE-TOUR [D] sign.
CHORUS
DE-[G] TOUR, there's a [G7] muddy road a-[G] head
DE-[D] TOUR, paid no [D7] mind to what it [D] said
DE-[G] TOUR, oh, these [G7] bitter things I [G] find
Should have [A] read - that [A7] DE-TOUR [D] sign.
When I got right to the place, where it said "about face"
I thought that all my worries were behind
But the farther I go - the more sorrow I know
Should have read that DETOUR sign.
CHORUS
When I got stuck in the mud, all my hopes dropped with a "thud"
I guess that my heart's strings are made of twine
Had no will power to get - from the hole that I'm in yet
Should have read that DETOUR sign.
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Date: 9/25/96; 1:36:53 PM
From: [email protected] (Gene L. Graham)
Subject: DETOUR
DETOUR
Recorded by Elton Britt
Written by Paul Westmoreland
[D] Headed down life's [D7] crooked [D] road
Lot of things I [D7] never [D] knowed
And the cause of me not [D7] knowin', I now [A] pine
Trouble [D] got in the [D7] trail
Spent the [G] next five years in [G7] jail
Should have [A] read - that [A7] DE-TOUR [D] sign.
CHORUS
DE-[G] TOUR, there's a [G7] muddy road a-[G] head
DE-[D] TOUR, paid no [D7] mind to what it [D] said
DE-[G] TOUR, oh, these [G7] bitter things I [G] find
Should have [A] read - that [A7] DE-TOUR [D] sign.
When I got right to the place, where it said "about face"
I thought that all my worries were behind
But the farther I go - the more sorrow I know
Should have read that DETOUR sign.
CHORUS
When I got stuck in the mud, all my hopes dropped with a "thud"
I guess that my heart's strings are made of twine
Had no will power to get - from the hole that I'm in yet
Should have read that DETOUR sign.
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