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Brook Benton |
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Miscellaneous |
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Don't It Make You Want To Go Home |
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Don't It Make You Want To Go Home |
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- Artist: Brook Benton as sung on "The Satin Sound Brook Benton" |
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- Suffolk Marketing-SMI 2 |
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- peak Billboard position # 45 in 1970 |
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- Words and Music by Joe South |
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Oh, the whippoorwill roosts on the telephone pole |
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And the Georgia sun goes down |
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Well, it's been a long, long time but I'm glad that I'm |
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Goin' back to my home town |
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Goin' down to the Greyhound station |
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Gonna buy me a one-way fare |
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And if the good Lord's willin' and the creeks don't rise |
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By tomorrow, ah, I'm gonna be there |
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Don't it make you want to go home? |
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Don't it make you want to go home? |
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All God's children get weary when they roam |
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Don't it make you want to go home? |
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There's a six-lane highway down by the creek |
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Where I went skinny-dippin' as a child |
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And a drive-in show where the meadows used to grow |
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And the strawberries used to grow wild |
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There's a drag strip down by the riverside |
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Where my grandma's cow used to graze |
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Now the grass don't grow and the river don't flow |
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Like it did in my childhood days |
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(Don't it make you wanna go home?) |
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(Don't it make you wanna go home?) |
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All God's children get weary when they roam |
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(Don't it make you) wanna, wanna go home? |
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Background singers sing "It's different, it's different , it's different, so |
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different now " while Brook scats with variations on "Don't it make you wanna go home?" |
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and then "But all God's children get weary when they roam, and don't it make you wanna go |
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home?" |
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"Don't it make you wanna to go home don't it make you |
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wanna go home And now-ah, don't it make you wanna go home, don't it make you |
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wanna go home?" |
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All of God's children get weary when they roam |
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(Don't it make you) SPOKEN: "And" (want to go home?) |
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SPOKEN: I'm goin' home |
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whistling plus a series of (Don't it make you want to go home?) to end |
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Transcribed by Robin Hood |
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These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above |
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and do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet |
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music, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets. |
