Detroit City

(Mel Tillis - Danny Dill)



Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City

And I dreamed about the cottonfields back home

I dreamed about my mother dear ol' papa sister and brother

And I dreamed about the girl who's waited for so long,



I wanna go home, I wanna go home, oh Lord, I wanna go home.



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Homefolks think I'm big in Detroit City

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

By day I make the cars 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 so many years, well, I find that

I've just wasted my life here all alone

I believe I'm gonna put my foolish pride

On a Southbound freight and I'm gonna ride

That's what I'm gonna do and I'm gonna go

Back to that girl who loves me and who's waited so long.



I wanna go home, I wanna go home, oh Lord, I wanna go home.



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I wanna go home, I wanna go home...