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Artist/Band: Jim Ed Brown and the Browns
Lyrics for Song: Detroit City
Lyrics for Album: Country's Best on Record [RCA Victor] [1968]



(Mel Tillis - Danny Dill)



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 cottonfields 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.



--- Instrumental ---



Homefolks 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.



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 I'll put on a Southbound freight and ride.



And go on back to the loved ones

The ones I left waiting so far behind

I wanna go home, I wanna go home

Oh, how I wanna go home...


Album Lyrics: Country's Best on Record [RCA Victor] [1968]


Jim Ed Brown and the Browns
"Country's Best on Record [RCA Victor] [1968]"


1. Tom Dooley
2. Dang Me
3. El Paso
4. Funny Way of Laughin'
5. Detroit City
6. Gentle on My Mind
7. Almost Persuaded
8. King of the Road
9. Big Bad John
10. Flowers on the Wall
11. The Battle of New Orleans