I wanna go home
I wanna go home
I wanna go home
Last night I went to sleep
in detroit city
I dreamed about those cotton
fileds of home
I dreamed about my mother
dear old papa sister and brother
I dreamed about that girl
whos been wating for so long
I wanna go home
I wanna go home
oh how I wanna go home
<Interlude>
Home, folks think
I'm big in detroit city
From the letters that I write
they think I'm just fine
But by day I make the cars
and by night I make the bars
if only they could read
between the lines
Cause you know that
I rode a freight train north
to detroit city
and after all these years
I find that I've just been
wasting my time
So I'm gonna
take my foolish pride
get it on a south bound freight
and let it ride
I'm gonna go back
to the love ones
the ones I left watin'
so far behind
I wanna go home
I wanna go home
oh how I want to go home