# "I Don't Wanna Go Home" song in Jaws. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 8, 2019, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-wanna-go-home-song-in-jaws/829169 "2019-02-08T10:30:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-wanna-go-home-song-in-jaws/829169/1 "2019-02-08T10:30:30Z")
Real song that people in the audience/the characters at that age would be familiar with, or made up for the movie? Because the movie is the only place that I’ve ever heard it. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-wanna-go-home-song-in-jaws/829169/2 "2019-02-08T10:59:20Z")
I seem to remember the song being “Show me the Way to go Home”, and yes; it’s a real song and I’ve heard it. For reference, I’m in my late sixties. As Jaws was made almost 45 years ago I assume most moviegoers would have been familiar with it. It was fifty years old at the time of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-wanna-go-home-song-in-jaws/829169/3 "2019-02-08T11:12:17Z")
Heck, even Emerson Lake and Palmer had a version. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-wanna-go-home-song-in-jaws/829169/4 "2019-02-08T11:44:37Z")
I had been googling “I Don’t Wanna Go Home”, which explains why I wasn’t finding anything. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-wanna-go-home-song-in-jaws/829169/5 "2019-02-08T14:00:05Z")
“Farewell & Adieu to You Fair Spanish Ladies” is real too. Though in the original version the singers are sailing back to England, not Boston. And it’s only 33 leagues from Ushant to Scilly. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-wanna-go-home-song-in-jaws/829169/6 "2019-02-08T14:48:12Z")
[A slightly funkier version.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1gccfAvcos) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-wanna-go-home-song-in-jaws/829169/7 "2019-02-08T16:20:19Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > the movie is the only place that I’ve ever heard it. That’s weird, it’s fairly well-known, and shows up[in many places](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Me_the_Way_to_Go_Home). ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-wanna-go-home-song-in-jaws/829169/8 "2019-02-08T16:36:57Z")
“Show me the way to go home. I’m tired and I want to go to bed. I had a little drink about an hour ago, and it’s gone straight to my head.” That song was featured in _The Naked and the Dead_ by Norman Mailer, along with “Pennies From Heaven”. So it was an old, nostalgic song already for the WWII generation. It’s nearly a century old. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-wanna-go-home-song-in-jaws/829169/9 "2019-02-08T16:44:28Z")
The Alan Parsons Project had a song of the same name as the thread title’s, but it’s otherwise totally different: [I Don't Wanna Go Home - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg4dVv1FFRk) ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-wanna-go-home-song-in-jaws/829169/10 "2019-02-09T17:33:18Z")
English songwriters Reg Connelly and Jimmy Campbell adapted “Show Me the Way to Go Home” from a folk song in 1925. [Here’s a version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXCOMPh9xWo) from that year by the Golden Gate Orchestra (AKA the California Ramblers). ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-wanna-go-home-song-in-jaws/829169/11 "2019-02-09T21:53:21Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > “Farewell & Adieu to You Fair Spanish Ladies” is real too. Though in the original version the singers are sailing back to England, not Boston. And it’s only 33 leagues from Ushant to Scilly. The best version of this IMHO. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PZfYtCLA23s/hqdefault.jpg "Farewell and Adieu") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZfYtCLA23s) ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2019, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-wanna-go-home-song-in-jaws/829169/12 "2019-02-10T02:23:41Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > English songwriters Reg Connelly and Jimmy Campbell adapted “Show Me the Way to Go Home” from a folk song in 1925. [Here’s a version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXCOMPh9xWo) from that year by the Golden Gate Orchestra (AKA the California Ramblers). That was great.