Lyric Detroit City

(Mel Tillis - Danny Dill)

I wanna go home, I wanna go home
Oh, how 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
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.

--- Instrumental ---

Homefolks 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, by night I make the bars
If only they could read between the lines.

Cause you know I rode the freight train north to Detroit City
And after all these years I find I ve just been wastin my time
So I just think I ll take my foolish pride
And put it on a Southbound freight and ride.
And go on back to the loved ones, the ones that I left waitin so far behind.

I wanna go home, I wanna go home,
Oh, how I wanna go home...