Nina Simone - I'm Going Back Home

[00:00.48] I'm going back home where I was born [00:03.02] First I planned to stay but I can't live this way [00:08.65] I'm going back home where I was born [00:19.72] Try to understand I think this city's grand [00:24.54] But with all its charme give me the little country farm [00:28.73] I'm going back home where I was born [00:40.86] Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah now oh yeah [00:48.98] I tell you all about it I think you ought to know [00:52.14] Tell you all about it why I wanna go [00:55.87] I miss the country preacher and the house of prayer [00:59.45] I miss the bootlegger smelling in the air [01:02.95] Miss friendly faces and the country smiles [01:07.34] The crickets singing you can hear it for miles [01:11.14] Miss the rooster crowing at the break of dawn [01:15.33] Yes it all happens where I was born [01:19.95] Miss the fried chicken colored greens [01:23.05] Miss the hot biscuits and the lima beans [01:26.39] Miss the prayer meeting where the people pray [01:30.75] With the drum beating till the break of day [01:34.15] You can have it you can have it [01:39.13] You can have it you can have it [01:40.39] You can have thy town I won't be around [01:42.87] This here life's too fast but 'll never never last [01:47.05] I'm going back home where I was born [01:51.47] I got to go home got to go home [01:52.95] Where the people are real people can feel [02:00.04] Got to go down got to go down [02:01.73] Leave here today on my way so long so long [02:03.78] Going back home going back home [02:04.64] Got to go home got to go home [02:05.06] Got to go home got to go home [02:05.65] Where I where I was born [02:43.09]