Brook Benton - Don't It Make You Want To Go Home lyrics

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Don't It Make You Want To Go Home<br />

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- Artist: Brook Benton as sung on "The Satin Sound Brook Benton"<br />

- Suffolk Marketing-SMI 2<br />

- peak Billboard position # 45 in 1970<br />

- Words and Music by Joe South<br />

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Oh, the whippoorwill roosts on the telephone pole<br />

And the Georgia sun goes down<br />

Well, it's been a long, long time but I'm glad that I'm<br />

Goin' back to my home town<br />

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Goin' down to the Greyhound station<br />

Gonna buy me a one-way fare<br />

And if the good Lord's willin' and the creeks don't rise<br />

By tomorrow, ah, I'm gonna be there<br />

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Don't it make you want to go home?<br />

Don't it make you want to go home?<br />

All God's children get weary when they roam<br />

Don't it make you want to go home?<br />

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There's a six-lane highway down by the creek<br />

Where I went skinny-dippin' as a child<br />

And a drive-in show where the meadows used to grow<br />

And the strawberries used to grow wild<br />

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There's a drag strip down by the riverside<br />

Where my grandma's cow used to graze<br />

Now the grass don't grow and the river don't flow<br />

Like it did in my childhood days<br />

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(Don't it make you wanna go home?)<br />

(Don't it make you wanna go home?)<br />

All God's children get weary when they roam<br />

(Don't it make you) wanna, wanna go home?<br />

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Background singers sing "It's different, it's different , it's different, so<br />

different now " while Brook scats with variations on "Don't it make you wanna go home?"<br />

and then "But all God's children get weary when they roam, and don't it make you wanna go<br />

home?"<br />

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"Don't it make you wanna to go home don't it make you<br />

wanna go home And now-ah, don't it make you wanna go home, don't it make you<br />

wanna go home?"<br />

All of God's children get weary when they roam<br />

(Don't it make you) SPOKEN: "And" (want to go home?)<br />

SPOKEN: I'm goin' home<br />

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whistling plus a series of (Don't it make you want to go home?) to end<br />

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Transcribed by Robin Hood<br />

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These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above<br />

and do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet<br />

music, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.