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 go home?
Don't it make you wanna go home?

Woah, the whip-poor-will roost on the telephone pole
And the Georgia sun goes down
And it's been a long time, but I'm glad to say
I'm goin' back down to my hometown

Goin' down to the Greyhound station
Gonna buy me a one-way fare
Good Lord willin' and the creek don't rise
By tomorrow, I'll be right there

Don't it make you wanna go home?
Don't it make you wanna go home?
All God's children get weary when thеy roam
Don't it make you wanna go home?
Don't it make you wanna go homе?

But 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

And there's a drag strip down by the riverside, y'all
Where my grandma's cows, they used to graze
Now the grass don't grow
And that Mississippi river, it don't flow
Like it did in my 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
And don't it make you wanna go home?
Don't it make you wanna go home?

Wanna see my family
(Don't it make you wanna go home?)
(Don't it make you wanna go home?)
Wanna see my friends
(Don't it make you wanna go home?)
(Don't it make you wanna go home?)

I want key lime on the front porch
I want sweet, sweet tea in the high storm
I'll take my mom's fried chicken with some moonshine
And eat them homemade biscuits with hot jam
Along a long dirt road with a clear sky
Give me that muddy road with some black guys
Oh, sweet Magnolias
Gonna be so happy with everything
Take me on home, home, home, home