Detroit City

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, 
  Whose 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, 
  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, 

  I rode a freight train north to Detroit city, 
  After all these years I've been wasting my time, 
  I'll take my foolish pride, 
  On a southbound freight and ride, 
  Go on back to the ones, 
  EI've left waitin' so far behind, 

  I want to go home, I want to go home, 
  Oh Lord, I want to go home.