Shall I write or phone from Paris or Rome Even though you're tryin' to hold me back You don't get no mail you know I'm in jail Fare thee well, my brother, please don't stand in my way I'm goin' down to that dirty town no matter what you say You fooled me

The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly gray The glory that was Rome is of another day I've been terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan I'm going home to my city by the Bay I left my heart in San Francisco High on a hill, it calls to me To be

For you to justify my love Wanting, needing, waiting I want to be your baby What are you gonna do? To justify my love I want to kiss you in Paris I want to hold your hand in Rome I want to run naked in a rainstorm Make love in a train cross-country

Let me go home But I wanna go home A million people I Oh, I miss you, you know And I wanna go home I'm coming back home Another summer day Has come and gone away In Paris and Rome

Rome Georgia Picked peaches off the trees Climbed the water tower in Paris Tennessee Drank Muscadine wine She gave me a chance and I made her mine Says she'll never fly away and she's my girl It's 'cause I showed her 'round a country boy's world She was

Let me go home But I want to go home A million people I Another summer day Is come and gone away In Paris and Rome Maybe surrounded by Still feel all alone

The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly gray The glory that was Rome is of another day I've been terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan I'm going home to my city by the Bay I left my heart in San Francisco High on a hill, it calls to me To be