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

— 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 South

Oh, the whippoorwill roosts on the telephone pole

And the Georgia sun goes down

Well, it’s been a long, long time but I’m glad that I’m

Goin' back to my home town

Goin' down to the Greyhound station

Gonna buy me a one-way fare

And if the good Lord’s willin' and the creeks don’t rise

By tomorrow, ah, I’m gonna be there

Don’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 roam

Don’t it make you want to go home?

There’s a six-lane highway down by the creek

Where I went skinny-dippin' as a child

And a drive-in show where the meadows 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 don’t grow and the river don’t flow

Like 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, so

Different 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 go

Home?

"

«Don't it make you wanna to go home don’t it make you

Wanna go home And now-ah, don’t it make you wanna go home, don’t it make you

Wanna 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' home

Whistling plus a series of (Don't it make you want to go home?) to end

And do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet

Music, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets