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.