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?
Oh, the whippoorwill roost
On the telephone pole
When the Georgia sun goes down
Well, it's been a long time
But I'm glad to say that I'm
Going back down to my hometown
Going down to the greyhound station
Gonna buy me a oneway fare
Good Lord's willing
And the creeks don't rise
Watch it for 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?
But there's a six lane highway
Down by the creek
Where I went skinny-dipping as a child
And the driving show
Where the meadow used to grow
And the strawberries used to grow wild
There's a drugstrip down by the riverside
Where my grandma's cow used to grace
Now the grass don't grow
And the river don't flow
Like it did in the childhood days
But 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?
Don't it make you wanna go home?