Key: Db major
Verse 1
C
F
I'm going back home
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F
where I was born
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Am
F
First I planned to stay but I
F
G
where I was born
C
Verse 2
G
C
Try to understand I think
C
E
Am
F
But with all it's charm give
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F
I'm going back home where
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G
I was born
C
F
C
Verse 3
I tell you all about it I think
you ought to know
Tell you all about it why I want to go
Verse 4
and the house of prayer
I miss the bootlegger smelling in the air
Miss friendly faces and the country smiles
The crickets singing you can
hear it for miles
Verse 5
at the break of dawn
Yes it all happens where I was born
Miss the hot biscuits and the lima beans
D
G
Miss the prayer meeting
where the people pray
With the drum beating till the break of day
Verse 6
G
Gsus4
G
You can have it you can
G
Gsus4
G
You can have it
you can have it
I won't be around
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G
but 'll never never last
Verse 7
home where I was born
I got to go home got to go home
Where the people are real people can feel
Got to go down got to go down
Verse 8
way so long so long
F
C
Going back home going back home
F
C
Got to go home got to go home
Got to go home got to go home
Dm
G
C
G
Gsus4
Where I where I
G
C
Cdim
Fm
was
C
born
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