Don't It Make You Wanna Go Home - Brook Benton

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 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?

(It's different, it’s different, it’s different, so different now)

Don’t it make you wanna go home…

But all God’s children get weary when they roam

And don’t it make you wanna go home…