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It's been an awful long time since I been home,
But you won't catch me goin' back down there alone.
Things they said when I was young are quite enough to get me hung.
I don't care! I don't care!
They came and took my Dad away to serve some time,
But it was me that paid the debt he left behind.
Folks said I was full of sin, because I was the next of kin.
I don't care! I don't care!
Ooh ooh oooh ooh oooh ooh
I don't care! I don't care!
Folks were out one night to put me up a fence,
And you can guess that I've been runnin' ever since.
Ain't no one that's 'bout to help, and I'll keep on, I tell myself.
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care! I don't care! I don't care!
Ain't no one that's 'bout to help, And I'll keep on, I tell myself.
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!
But you won't catch me goin' back down there alone.
Things they said when I was young are quite enough to get me hung.
I don't care! I don't care!
But it was me that paid the debt he left behind.
Folks said I was full of sin, because I was the next of kin.
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!
And you can guess that I've been runnin' ever since.
Ain't no one that's 'bout to help, and I'll keep on, I tell myself.
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!
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Submitted by
cl3mens On Jan 15, 2008
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Hey! Awsome song! and i live about 15 mins away Porterville.. i live in Delano :) CCR Forever! truly an American Rock N Roll band!
I'm going back to my home town for Easter this weekend and this song came into my mind!
Greatest hometown song ever, thanks!
Did a Google search and there is a Porterville CA?
Could be about a small town in Wisconsin also, trust me.
yes ther is a porterville CA! not much of a great town but ther is :) lol
yes ther is a porterville CA! not much of a great town but ther is :) lol
I agree with you tman, it's one of the best going home song. Whereever "home" is.
It makes me think of my father who moved about 500 Km south a couple of years ago. He comes and visits me a lot but i don't go down there anymore. His woman and I don't go along nicely... But often I feel that I'm getting blamed for his errors by people. So it has a kind of special meaning for me.