Detroit City

I wanna go home
 I wanna go home
 Lord, how I want to go home
 Last night I went to sleep in Detroit city
 And I dreamed of those cotton fields and home
 I dreamed about my mother, my papa, sister and brother
 I dreamed about that girl who's been waitin' for so long
 I want to go home
 I want to go home
 Lord, how 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
 By night I make the bars
 If only they could read between the lines
 I wanna go home
 I wanna go home
 Lord, how I want to go home
 I rode a freight train north to Detroit City
 And after all these years I've found I'm wasting my time
 So I'll take my foolish pride
 Put her on a southbound freight and ride
 Go on back to the loved ones I've left so far behind
 I wanna go home
 I wanna go home
 Lord, how I want to go home
 I wanna go home
 I wanna go home
 Lord, how I want to go home