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 of 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 whippoorwills roost on the telephone poles

The Georgia sun goes down

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

If the good Lord's willin' and the creeks don't rise

Tomorrow I will be right there.



Don't it make you wanna go home now

Now don't it make you wanna go home

All of God's children get weary when they roam

Don't it make you wanna go home

Don't it make you wanna go home?



--- Instrumental ---



There's a six lane highway down by the creek

Where I went skinny dippin' as a child

And the drive-in show where the meadow used to grow

And the strawberries used to grow wild.



There's a dragstrip down by the riverside

Where my grandma's cow used to graze

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

Now don't it make you wanna go home

All of 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

Now don't it make you wanna go home

All of 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

Now don't it make you wanna go home

All of God's children get weary when they roam

Don't it make you wanna go home

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