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 roosts
On the telephone poles
When the georgia sun goes down
Well it's been a long time
But I'm glad to see that I'm
Goin' back down to my hometown
Goin' down to the greyhound station
Gonna buy me a one way fare
Good lord's willin' 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 dippin' as a child
And the drive in show where the meadow
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 the childhood days
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