Don't It Make You Wanta Go Home

(album: Ready - 1983)

Don't it make you wanna go home now?
Don't it make you wanna go home?
All God's children get weary when they roam
Don't it make you wanna go home?
Lord, don't it make you wanna go home?

Oh, the whippoorwill roosts on the telephone pole
And the Georgia sun goes down
Well, it's been a long time but I'm glad to say
I'm going back down to my hometown
Going down to the Greyhound station
Gonna buy me a one-way fare
Now, the good Lord willing and the creek don't rise
By tomorrow I'll be right there

Now, don't it make you wanna go home now?
Don't it make you wanna go home?
All God's children get weary when they roam
Don't it make you wanna go home?
Don't it make you wanna go home?

But there's a six-lane highway down by the creek
Where I went skinny-dipping as a child
And a drive-in show where the meadow 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, it don't grow, and the river it don't flow
Like it did in my childhood days

Don't it make you wanna go home now?
Don't it make you wanna go home?
All God's children get weary when they roam
Don't it make you wanna go home?
Lord, don't it make you wanna go home?

Don't it make you wanna go home now?
Don't it make you wanna go home?
All God's children get weary when they roam
Don't it make you wanna go home?
Oh, don't it make you wanna go home?

Now, don't it make you wanna go home now?
Don't it make you wanna go home?
All God's children get weary when they roam
Don't it make you wanna go home?

Lord, don't it make you wanna go home now?
Don't it make you wanna go home?
All God's children get weary when they roam
Don't it make you wanna go home?

Don't it make you wanna go home now, boy?
Don't it make you wanna go home?
All God's children get weary when they roam
Don't it make you wanna go home?