Bobby Bare
I wanna go home, I wanna go home
Oh how I wanna 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 wanna go home, I wanna go home
Oh how I want to go home
Homefolks 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
Cause 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
Put it on a southbound freight and ride
And go on back to the loved ones
The ones that I left waitin' so far behind
I wanna go home, I wanna go home
Oh how I wanna go home.