Detroit City
((Danish Version: Nu Rejser Jeg Hjem (Gustav Winckler) - 1964))
Composer(s): Mel Tillis - Danny Dill
First recording/First release by: Bobby Bare - 1962/1963
Covered by multiple other artists
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
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