Don't It Make You Want To Go Home

Brook Benton
Miscellaneous
Dont It Make You Want To Go Home
Dont It Make You Want To Go Home
- Artist: Brook Benton as sung on 'The Satin Sound Brook Benton'
- Suffolk Marketing-SMI 2
- peak Billboard position # 45 in 1970
- Words and Music by Joe South
Oh, the whippoorwill roosts on the telephone pole
And the Georgia sun goes down
Well, its been a long, long time but Im glad that Im
Goin back to my home town
Goin down to the Greyhound station
Gonna buy me a one-way fare
And if the good Lords willin and the creeks dont rise
By tomorrow, ah, Im gonna be there
Dont it make you want to go home?
Dont it make you want to go home?
All Gods children get weary when they roam
Dont it make you want to go home?
Theres a six-lane highway down by the creek
Where I went skinny-dippin as a child
And a drive-in show where the meadows used to grow
And the strawberries used to grow wild
Theres a drag strip down by the riverside
Where my grandmas cow used to graze
Now the grass dont grow and the river dont flow
Like it did in my childhood days
(Dont it make you wanna go home?)
(Dont it make you wanna go home?)
All Gods children get weary when they roam
(Dont it make you) wanna, wanna go home?
Background singers sing 'Its different, its different , its different, so
different now ' while Brook scats with variations on 'Dont it make you wanna go home?'
and then 'But all Gods children get weary when they roam, and dont it make you wanna go
home?'
'Dont it make you wanna to go home dont it make you
wanna go home And now-ah, dont it make you wanna go home, dont it make you
wanna go home?'
All of Gods children get weary when they roam
(Dont it make you) SPOKEN: 'And' (want to go home?)
SPOKEN: Im goin home
whistling plus a series of (Dont it make you want to go home?) to end
Transcribed by Robin Hood
These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above
and do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet
music, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.