Dont it Make You

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From: RSambu@aol.com

Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 14:39:35 -0500

Subject: TAB: Don't It Make You Want to Go Home by Joe South (CRD file)

Another fine Joe South song circa 1969.

Don't It Make You Want to Go Home

(Joe South)

G Am D G

/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / [2X] (see note)

(chorus first):

G Am

Don't it make you want to go home now

D G

Don't it make you want to go home

Am

All God's children get weary when they roam

D G

Don't it make you want to go home

D G

Don't it make you want to go home

(verse 1):

G Am

Oh the whippoorwill roosts on the telephone pole

D G

as the Georgia sun goes down

Am

Well it's been a long time but I'm glad to say that I'm

D G

goin' back down to my home town

Am

Goin' down to the Greyhound station

D G

Gonna buy me a one way fare

Am

Good lord willin' and the creeks don't rise

D G

By tomorrow I'll be right there

(chorus)

(verse 2):

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 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 my childhood days

(chorus - lead off last line with "Tell me")

(chorus, up 1 step, and drop 5th line):

A Bm

Don't it make you want to go home now

E A

Don't it make you want to go home

Bm

All God's children get weary when they roam and

E A

God how I want to go home

(repeat 4-line chorus, fading)

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note: The intro has strings and finger-picked guitar which

follows this line:

G Am D G

e|---------------|-------------|-3--2--0--2---|-3--5--7------|
B|-----0-1-1p0---|-0------1----|--------------|--------------|
G|-0-2---------2-|-----2-------|--------------|-------0------|
D|---------------|-------------|--------------|--------------|
A|---------------|-------------|--------------|--------------|
E|---------------|-------------|--------------|--------------|

G Am D G

e|---------------|-------------|-3--2--0--2---|--3-----------|
B|-----0-1-1p0---|-0------1----|--------------|--------------|
G|-0-2---------2-|-----2-------|--------------|--0-----------|
D|---------------|-------------|--------------|--------------|
A|---------------|-------------|--------------|--------------|
E|---------------|-------------|--------------|--------------|