Detroit City

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 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

Oh, how I wanna go home

Home folks think l'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 a 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

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