Capo 3
  
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