Detroit City Lyrics - The Browns

(I wanna go home, I wanna go home,) 

(Oh, how I want to go home.) 

Last night, I went to sleep in Detroit City, 

And I dreamed about those cotton fields at 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!) 

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! 

{Spoken} 

You know, 

I rode a 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 south bound freight and ride, 

And go on back to the love ones, 

The ones I left waitin' so far behind. 

(Sang) 

(I wanna go home, I wanna go home,) 

(Oh, how I want to go home)...