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Don't it make you want to go home now
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
Don't it make you want to go home
Oh the whippoorwill roosts on the telephone pole
as the Georgia sun goes down
Well it's been a long time but I'm glad to say that I'm
goin' back down to my home town
Goin' down to the Greyhound station
Gonna buy me a one way fare
Good lord willin' and the creeks don't rise
By tomorrow I'll be right there
(chorus)
Don't it make you want to go home now
Don't it make you want to go home
All God's children get weary when they roam and
God how I want to go home
(repeat 4-line chorus, fading)