Detroit City

(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.



'Cause 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 put it on a Southbound freight and ride.

And 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...