detroit city

Lyrics

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.