By Rush Olson, Kevin Rothstein, Dean Pauley

Verse (G-F riff) :

Where the path of least resistance

Meets the dirty boulevard

There’s a house down by the big white church

Where they hold onto all the cards

You can get there turning left

You can get there turning right

But you might want to go back the other way

If you (stop time) want to sleep in your own bed tonight

Chorus :

C) It don’t lead to the country

B-flat) It don’t cut through (F) town

C) That ain’t the road you oughta be goin’ down

Verse (G-F riff) :

Lose your sense of direction

Lose the football game to politics

Lose the flying chimpanzees

This (stop time) street ain’t made outta yellow bricks

Chorus :

C) It don’t lead to the country

B-flat) It don’t cut through (F) town

C) That ain’t the road you oughta be goin’ down

Bridge :

(G-F riff twice, then progression up to B)

B-E-G-F#-B

B) New deal, fair deal, square deal, new (E) frontier

Com(G)passionate confis(F#)cation has now (B)appeared

(Instrumental on verse chord progression)

Verse (G-F riff) :

Here comes a ‘Vette doing ninety

His eminence all drunk on wine

You might not see where he’s coming from

Somebody (stop time) stole the city limits sign

Chorus :

C) It don’t lead to the country

B-flat) It don’t cut through (F) town

C) That ain’t the road you oughta be goin’ down

No, that ain’t the road you oughta be goin’ down

No, that ain’t the road you oughta be goin’ down

No, that ain’t the road, that ain’t the road, that ain’t the road you oughta be goin’ down

No, that ain’t the road you oughta be goin’ down