So I really wrote the lyrics about just the difficulties of being away from home. I dreamed about those cotton fields and home. Frank, the Head Counselor, is in charge of all the counselors and is the first one at the beginning to ask the Warden, "Is there any last problems that we should know about?" In return, Mike refers to Harold as a "twit." Then we sent it on to Amy. 1 hit on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, and went … I knew it shouldn't be like that, because he goes to Europe a lot. He defends Rudy from all the other counselors (including Head Counselor Frank) when they want to force Rudy to play on their teams in order to win camp championships against other camps. He was sent to camp for getting high grades in school and considers that if this was his parents' idea of a reward, than he would've probably gotten into a lot more serious trouble if he had failed. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see I Want to Go Home (disambiguation). It was republished, as with most of Korman's older books, in 2004 with a new cover and updated text. A middle-aged man with bow legs who apparently doesn't like kids, he strictly lives by the time in which his grandfather was director of the camp, meaning nothing to him can be different now from then. Chang and Foster-Gillies told AOL the story of this song. Rudy Miller, the novel's protagonist, is a loner who is sent to camp against his wishes by his school's guidance department. The first verse goes : When did Michael buble win his first award? please i really need to know who wrote it and the original artist the song is Home "Home" Another summer day Has come and gone away In Paris and Rome But I wanna go home Mmmmmmmm May be surrounded by A million people I Still feel all alone I just wanna go home Oh, I miss you, you know thats a bit of the song please let me know the original artist thanks :) He criticizes Chip's humorless handling of Rudy and Mike, initially believing that some activity (like Arts and Crafts) will keep the boys from running away. I dreamed about my mother, dear old papa, sister and brother. Watch the video for I Want to Go Home from Johnny Cash's Johnny Cash Slipcase for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Here are the lyrics ! Originally, Rihanna sang this song, but other artists have made their own versions. Bublé wrote this with Alan Chang and with Amy Foster-Gillies, who is the daughter famous producer/songwriter David Foster (who wrote “Glory Of Love” and “You’ll See”). Alan Chang: [Buble] had the first few lines of the song written when he came to soundcheck one day. "Home" is a song recorded by Canadian-Italian singer Michael Bublé, and released on January 24, 2005, as the second single from his second major-label studio album, It's Time. [2], Pasha Malla, in a 2008 article for CBC.ca, wrote that "even beyond nostalgia, it's a fun, engaging read" and that the sarcasm of the main character had been "refreshing" for him. This story was originally written by Vernell Hackett, and revised by Angela Stefano. Below, Chang and Foster-Gillies tell The Boot about how the song came to be. I want to go home, I want to go home, O Lord I want to go home."