Detroit City

I wanna go home

I wanna go home

Ohh how I wanna go home

Last night I went to sleep in Detroit city

And I dreamed about those cotton fields 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

Ohh how I wanna go home

Home folks 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

I wanna go home