Detroit City

(Mel Tillis - Danny Dill)



I wanna go home

I wanna go home

Oh, how I want to go home.



Last night I went to sleep in Detroit city

And I dreamed about those cotton fields 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 want to go home.



Homefolks think I'm big in Detroit city

From the letters I write they think I'm fine

But 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

After all these years I find I've just been wastin' my time

So I just think I'll take my foolish pride put on a southbound freight and ride

And goin' back to the loved ones the ones I left there waiting so far behind.



I wanna go home

I wanna go home

Oh, how I want to go home.



I wanna go home

I wanna go home

Oh, how I want to go home.



(I wanna go home, oh, how I wanna go home...)