Detroit City

Detroit City - Bobby Bare

I wanna go home I wanna go

Home oh how I wanna go home

Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City

And I dreamed about those

Cottonfields and home

I dreamed about my mother dear

Old papa sister and brother

I dreamed about that girl who's

Been waiting for so long

I wanna go home I wanna go home

Oh how I wanna go home

Homefolks think I'm big in Detroit City

From the letters that I write they think I'm fine

But by day I make the cars by

Night I make the bars

If only they could read between the lines

Cause you know I rode the freight

Train north to Detroit City

And after all these years I find I've

Just been wastin' my time

So I just think I'll take my foolish pride

And put it on a Southbound freight and ride

And go on back to the loved ones the

Ones that I left waitin' so far behind

I wanna go home I wanna go home

Oh how I wanna go home