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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