Detroit City Lyrics - Jim Ed Brown

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 

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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 

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 I'll put on a Southbound freight and ride 

And go on back to the loved ones the ones I left waiting so far behind 

I wanna go home I wanna go home oh how I wanna go home