Detroit City

I wanna go home

I wanna go home

Oh, how I want to go home

Last night I went to sleep in Detroit city

I dreamed about those cotton fields back home

I dreamed about my mother, my daddy, sisters and brothers

And I dreamed about this girl who I left waiting so long

I wanna go home (I wanna go home, home)

See, I wanna go home (I wanna go home, home)

Oh, how I want to go home (Oh, I wanna go home)

You see, home folks think I'm big in Detroit city

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

Yes, they do

But by day, I make the cars

And by night, I make the bars

If only they could read between the lines

'Cause you know

I caught a freight train to Detroit city

And after all these years I realized now

I've just been wastin' my time

You know what I'm gonna do?

I'm gonna take this foolish pride

Get on a southbound freight and let it ride

And go back to those ones that love me

Those ones that are waiting for me

Waiting back behind

I wanna go home (I wanna go home, home)

Can you help me get back home (I wanna go home, home)

Somebody, oh, (Oh, I wanna go home) I want to go home

I just got to get home (I wanna go home, home)

You see, I got to get home (I wanna go home)