Detroit City

(Mel Tillis - Danny Dill)



I wanna go home, I wanna go home

Oh Lord, 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

And I dreamed about the girl that's been waiting for so long.



I wanna go home, I wanna go home

Oh Lord, I wanna go home.



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Now the homefolks think I'm big in Detroit City

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

By day I make the cars and by night I'm a making the bars

Lord, if only they could read between the lines.



As you know I rode a long black freight train way up north to Detroit City

But after all these years I find that, well, I've just been wastin' my time

But you know what I think, I'm gonna do folks, I'm gonna take my foolish pride

And put it on a Southbound freight and ride.



I wanna go home. I wanna go home

Oh Lord, I wanna go home...