Detroit City 
  
  
I want to go home 
I want to go home 
Oh, how I want to go home 
  
You know last night I went to sleep in Detroit city 
And I dreamed about those cotton fields back 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 want to go home 
I want to go home 
Oh, how I want to go home 
  
folks think I'm big in Detroit city 
From the letters 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 
  
You know I rode a freight train north to Detroit city 
After all these years I find I've just been wasting my time 
So I just think I'll take my foolish pride put on a southbound train and ride 
And go on back to the loved ones the ones I left there waiting so far behind 
  
I want to go home 
I want to go home 
Oh, how I want to go home