Brook BentonMiscellaneousDon't It Make You Want To Go HomeDon'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 SouthOh, the whippoorwill roosts on the telephone poleAnd the Georgia sun goes downWell, it's been a long, long time but I'm glad that I'mGoin' back to my home townGoin' down to the Greyhound stationGonna buy me a one-way fareAnd if the good Lord's willin' and the creeks don't riseBy tomorrow, ah, I'm gonna be thereDon'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 roamDon't it make you want to go home?There's a six-lane highway down by the creekWhere I went skinny-dippin' as a childAnd a drive-in show where the meadows used to growAnd the strawberries used to grow wildThere's a drag strip down by the riversideWhere my grandma's cow used to grazeNow the grass don't grow and the river don't flowLike 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, sodifferent 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 gohome?Don't it make you wanna to go home don't it make youwanna go home And now-ah, don't it make you wanna go home, don't it make youwanna 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' homewhistling plus a series of (Don't it make you want to go home?) to endTranscribed by Robin HoodThese lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned aboveand do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheetmusic, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.
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