Don't It Make You Want to Go Home - Joe South - 1969

This song puts me right smack dab in the middle of Danang, late summer of '69. And yes Joe, we really wanted to go home. Badly. Songs like this provide a soundtrack to our lives and this one stirs up some vivid memories for me.
I hope all my buddies--and we were the closest of buddies for 12 months--have survived and prospered all these many years since we were young....

You should upload it to youtube. His version is also not on the iTunes Store. I'd love to hear all the versions (over 100) by different artists, but remember who wrote it, Joe South - all the rest built on Joe's gem.

No where as good as brook bentons version. when brook sings it he does it with a lot more feeling the type that makes you shiver.

@mobegone It is the other way around tool

This song is about my home town in Georgia, The drag strip that he is talking about is THE YELLOW RIVER DRAG STRIP it went out of business after a bad crash on March 2nd, 1969. The 6 lane Hwy is I-20 through GA, and the Drive in show is the HUB DRIVE IN it has been out of business since around 1977.

GOD, YES!!!!! I WANT TO GO HOME!!!!!!

Joe has a ton of talent from "Hush" to
"Untie Me" and evreytjhing in between. Does anyone know what he is up to these days? He is an enigma, hope he is still with us.

Joe has a page - and he reads the comments on the guestbook! Joesouth(dot)com

Cheers!

Wow, murphicus thanks for the info. Let's face it, South's music is wide-ranging and
eclectic. A lot of people just don't get it,
his stuff has stood the test of time!!

Also, I just put a link to Joe's page under "more info" and the Wikipedia page on Joe.