INTRO:  (spoken)
Going back home. Hadn't been home in a long time.
 
 
    G                                      Em
The old home place, it just don't look the same to me
          C                                     Am
There's a filling station where the high school used to be
        G               D                   G
And I'm hoping that the folks will remember me
        D
Now I'm home, now I'm home
 
 
G                                   Em
Front porch of her house has just begun to sag
      C                                   Am
Every letter that she wrote is right here in my bag
       G              D             G
When I told the boys about her, I began to brag
        D             G
Now I'm home, now I'm home
C                       G          
Home, home, home, home, home
 
 
BRIDGE:
Am           E7         Am
Something is dreadfully wrong, oh it seems
    C                                    Am
The house is boarded up, there's cobwebs hanging from the screens
  F                                    C
I think I hear the neighbours saying, "Just last week
         E7          Am             D              G      C  G  D
She ran away, with a man from Tennessee, to make a home"
 
 
INTERLUDE: (same as Verse)
G                      Em
Pa pa pa pa etc., etc.
    C                Am
Pa pa pa pa etc., etc.
     G         D        G
Pa pa pa pa etc., etc.
     D             
Pa pa pa pa etc., etc.
 
 
INSTRUMENTAL: G  Em  C  Am  G  D  G C G
 
 
G                          Em
Sitting in a café, sipping something cool
C                            Am
Looking out and wondering if I'm a fool
    G           D                      G
For leaving California, where I had it made
           D             
To go back home, To go back home
 
To go back home, home, home, home
        G          
Go back home