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Goin' Home

(Joe Byers)


Copyright Williamson Music Co.


Soundtrack recording for MGM - Stay Away, Joe - RCA studio session - January 15-17, 1968 - RCA's Studio B - Nashville

 January 16, 1-5 am

WPA1 1001-30
June 1968 LP RCA LSP 3969 Speedway
Outtakes:
Takes 12, 18, 21, 22, 24, 26 and 29: April 2013 CD FTD 506020 975056 Stay Away Joe
Takes 21, 24 (fs): August 13, 1991 CD RCA 3114-2-R Collectors Gold
Take 29: November 10, 2003 CD FTD 82876 53368-2 So High





This proud wild land where the wind blows free
Has always been a part of me
It's in my blood, I just can't get it out
For a hundred miles a man can see
And be about as wild as he wants to be
If he feels like shouting all he's gotta do is shout


Where the purple mountains reach up high
And look like they're gonna touch the sky
Where the canyon walls have stood for a million years
Where the days are hot, the nights are cold
The desert sand looks just like gold
These trails were carved in sweat and blood and tears


Where the painted desert as you pass by
Looks like a rainbow in the sky
The cactus blooms in the early morning sun
Where the nightwings sing and eagles fly
The clouds paint pictures in the sky
The cayotes howl tells you when the day is done


I'm coming home, this time I'm gonna stay
I'm coming home and I ain't never goin' away
My feet are itching to get back home
I've had the desert fever since I've been gone
I need some loving so bad that I can't see
When a woman looks a man in the eye
You know it takes a man to satisfy
Thinking about them girls is killing me


I'm going home, going home
Going home, I'm going home
Going home, going home
Going home 



     c				am
This proud wild land where the wind blows free
    c           g
Has always been a part of me
 f                   g                 c      g7
It's in my blood, I just can't get it out
For a hundred miles a man can see
And be about as wild as he wants to be
If he feels like shouting all he's gotta do is shout
Where the purple mountains reach up high
And look like they're gonna touch the sky
Where the canyon walls have stood for a million years
Where the days are hot, the nights are cold
The desert sand looks just like gold
These trails were carved in sweat and blood and tears
Where the painted desert as you pass by
Looks like a rainbow in the sky
The cactus blooms in the early morning sun
Where the nightwings sing and eagles fly
The clouds paint pictures in the sky
The coyotes howl tells you when the day is done
    am				     c
I'm coming home, this time I'm gonna stay
    am                            d7    dm         g7   f  g
I'm coming home and I ain't never goin' away
My feet are itching to get back home
I've had the desert fever since I've been gone
I need some loving so bad that I can't see
When a woman looks a man in the eye
You know it takes a man to satisfy
Thinking about them girls is killing me
c         am  (play with the chords)
I'm going home, going home
Going home, I'm going home
Going home, going home
Going home