i want to go home
i want to go home
oh
how i want to go home
you know last night i went to sleep in detroit city
and i dreamed about those cotton fields back 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 want to go home
i want to go home
oh
how i want to go home
folks 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 wasting my time
so i just think i'll take my foolish pride put on a southbound train and ride
and go on back to the loved ones the ones i left there waiting so far behind
i want to go home
i want to go home
oh
how i want to go home