detroit city

last night i went to sleep in detroit city

and i dreamed about those cotton fields at 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 wanna 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!

you know

i rode a freight train north to detroit city. after all these years

i find that i've just been wastin' my time. so i just think i'll take my foolish pride

put on a south bound freight and ride

goin' back to the love ones

the ones i left waitin' so far behind. i wanna go home

i wanna go home

oh

how i want to go home.