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
Don't it make you want to go home
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 to say that I am
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 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
Don't it make you want to go home
But 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