Detroit City

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 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