Don't It Make You Want To Go Home
Composer(s): Joe South
First release by: Joe South and the Believers - 1969
Covered by multiple other artists



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?

"It's different, it's different, it's different, so different now" 
"Don't it make you wanna go home?"
"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)
"And" (want to go home?)
I'm goin' home

Don't it make you want to go home?