Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City
And I dreamed about those cotton fields at 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 wanna go home, I wanna go home
Oh, how I wanna 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
You know I rode a freight train north to Detroit City
After all these years
I find that I've just been wasting my time
So I just think I'll take my foolish pride
put on a south bound freight and ride
Going back to the love ones
The ones I left waiting so far behind
I wanna go home, I wanna go home
Oh, how I want to go home