Dont It Make You Want To Go Home lyrics

Artist  : Brook Benton 
Song : Dont It Make You Want To Go Home
 


Don't 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, it's been a
long, long time but I'm glad that I'm
Goin'
back to my home town

Goin' down to the
Greyhound station
Gonna buy me a one-way
fare
And if the good Lord's willin' and the
creeks don't rise
By tomorrow, ah, I'm gonna
be there

Don't it make you want to go
home?
Don't it make you want to go
home?
All God's children get weary when they
roam
Don't it make you want to go
home?

There's 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

There's a drag strip 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?)
(Don't it make you wanna go
home?)
All God's children get weary when they
roam
(Don't it make you) wanna, wanna go
home?

 Background singers sing
"It's different, it's different , it's different,
so
different now " while Brook scats with
variations on "Don't it make you wanna go
home?"
and then "But all God's children get
weary when they roam, and don't it make you wanna
go
home?"


"Don't it make you wanna to go home don't it make
you
wanna go home And now-ah, don't it make you
wanna go home, don't it make you
wanna go
home?"
All of God's children get weary when
they roam
(Don't it make you) SPOKEN: "And"
(want to go home?)
SPOKEN: I'm goin'
home

 whistling plus a series of
(Don't 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.