Detroit City (I Wanna Go Home)

I want to go home

I want to go home

Oh, Lord I want to go home

Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City

I dreamed about them cotton fields of home

I dreamed about my mother

Dear old pappy, sister and brother

About the girl

Who's been waitin' for so long

I want to go home

I want to go home

Oh, Lord I want to go home

Home folks think I'm big in Detroit City

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

By day I make the cars and by night I make the bars

If only they could read between the lines

"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 think I'll put my foolish pride

On a southbound freight and let it ride

Back to the loved ones

I left waiting so far behind"

I want to go home

I want to go home

Oh, Lord I want to go home