Don't It Make You Want to Go Home

(Joe South)



Don't it make you wanna go home now

Don't it make you wanna go home

All God's children get weary when they roam

Don't it make you wanna go home

Don't it make you wanna go home.



Oh the whippoorwill roost on the telephone poles

And the Georgia sun goes down

Well it's been a long time but I'm glad to say that I'm

Goin' back down to my hometown.



Goin' down to the greyhound station

Gonna buy me a oneway fare

Good Lord's willin' and the creeks don't rise

But tomorrow I'll be right there.



Don't it make you wanna go home now

Don't it make you wanna go home

All God's children get weary when they roam

Don't it make you wanna go home

Don't it make you wanna go home.



There's a six lane highway down by the creek

Where I went skinny dippin' as a child

And the driving show where the meadow used to grow

And the strawberries used to grow wild.



There's a drugstrip down by the riverside

Where my grandma's cow used to grace

Now the grass don't grow and the river don't flow

Like it did in my childhood days.



Don't it make you wanna go home now

Don't it make you wanna go home

All God's children get weary when they roam

Don't it make you wanna go home

Don't it make you wanna go home.



Don't it make you wanna go home now

Don't it make you wanna go home

All God's children get weary when they roam

Don't it make you wanna go home

Don't it make you wanna go home.



Don't it make you wanna go home now

Don't it make you wanna go home

All God's children get weary when they roam

Don't it make you wanna go home

Don't it make you wanna go home...