detroit city

i want to go home

i want to go home

oh lord

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

and i dreamed about that girl

who's been waitin' for so long

i want to go home

i want to go home

oh lord

i want to go home

home folks 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

and by night i make the bars

if only they could read between the lines

i want to go home

i want to go home

oh lord

i want to go home

you know

i rode a freight train north to detroit city

and after all these years i find i've just been wasting my time

so i think i'll take my foolish pride

put it on a southbound freight and ride

go on back to the ones i left

who've been waitin' for so long

i want to go home

i want to go home

oh lord

i want to go home.