Way Back Home - Jr. Walker & The All Stars

Oh, there’s good 'n bad things

About the South, boy

Oh, and some leave a bitter taste

In my mouth, now

Yeah!

Like the black man livin' across the track

White man were on the other side

Holdin' him back

Way back home, now

Oh, but we won’t talk about that

'Cause it’s understood

Ev’rybody sees the bad

But what about the good?

Ooh, I’d give anything

Just to smell that scent

Of honeysuckle growin'

On a backyard fence

Way back home, now

'Oow!'

'Oh Heaven Scent, Ya’All!'

(Way back home)

Yeah, way back home

(Way back home)

Way back home, back home

I’d love to smell the wetness

Of grass and trees

And see ground kissed

By honey bees

Like way back home, now

Oh, but childhood days

Are dead 'n gone

Well, but the memories

Oh, have you ever gone swimmin'

In a muddy creek

With nothin' on your body

From head to feet?

Way back home, yeah

How much you’d pay for the game

Like hide an seek

Yeah!

And snake through the weeds

Overhear the streams

Well, I know some kids

Still play those games

But when they play

It just ain’t the same

Like way back home

'Sad to sing it, ya’all!'

YEAH!

Way back home, way back home

(Way back home)

Way back

Oh, I really miss those things

That have faded away

I remember them

Like it was yesterday

Now, way back home

(Way back ho-ome)

(Way back ho-ome)

FADES:

Doo-doo, do-do

Doo-doo, do-ooo-do

(Way back ho-ome)

(Way back ho-ome).