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 go home?
Don't it make you wanna go home?
Well, the whippoorwill
Roost 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
Good Lord's willing and the creeks don't rise
By tomorrow, I'll be right there
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?
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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
And there's a drag strip down by the riverside, y'all know
Where my grandma's cows, they used to graze
Now the grass don't grow (the grass don't grow)
And then Mississippi River, it done flow (it done flow)
Like it did in my childhood days
And 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
And don't it make you wanna go home?
Don't it make you wanna go home? (I wanna see my friend, oh)
Don't it make you wanna go home? (I wanna see my friends)
Don't it make you wanna go home?
I want a key lime pie on the front porch
I want a sweet, sweet tea in the high storm
I'll take my mum's fried chicken with some moon shine
And make 'em home-made biscuits with hot jam
Along a dirt road with a clear sky, give me that muddy road with some black guys
Oh, sweet magnolias, I'ma grease, grease
Gonna be so happy with everything
Take me on a home, home, home, home
(Don't it make you wanna go home?)
(Don't it make you wanna go home?)
(Don't it make you wanna go home?)
(Don't it make you wanna go home?)
(Don't it make you wanna go home?)