Detroit City lyrics

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 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 a freight train north to Detroit City

And after all these years I find that I've just been wasting

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 waiting so far behind"

I wanna go home, I wanna go home

Oh, how I wanna go home