Detour Ahead - Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie Orchestra

Smooth road, clear day

Why am I the only onetraveling this way

How strange the road to love should be so easy

Can there be a detour ahead

Wake up, slow down

Before you crash and break your heart gullable clown

You fool you’re heading in the wrong direction

Can’t you see the detour ahead

The farther you travel

The harder to unravel

The web he spins around you

Turn back while there’s time

Can’t you see the dangerous signs

Sot shoulders surround you

Smooth road clear night

Oh lucky me that suddenly I saw the light

I’m heading back away from all this trouble

Smooth road, smooth road

No detour ahead