detroit city - bobby bare

Detroit City
Mel Tillis / Danny Dill


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Lyrics:
I wanna go home, I wanna go home,
Oh Lord, 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 Lord, 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

SPOKEN: 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 wanna go home, I wanna go home,
Oh Lord, I wanna go home

Singers:
1. Bobby Bare (billboard adult contemporary) May 1963 2. Jan & Dean July 1963 3. Porter Wagoner September 1963 4. Kai Winding August 1964 5. The Strings, Voices and Orchestra of Billy Liebert 1964 6. Tom Tedesco 1964 7. Arthur Alexander April 1965 8. Jerry Lee Lewis November 1965 9. Joe Tex 1965 10. Charley Pride September 1966 11. The Jordanaires 1966 12. Tom Jones February 10, 1967 13. Solomon Burke November 1967 14. Ferlin Husky January 1968 15. Tennessee Ernie Ford April 2, 1968 16. Jim Ed Brown May 1968 17. Dean Martin July 1970 18. Johnny Cash October 1970 19. Jim Nabors 1971 20. Dolly Parton November 1980 21. Arne Benoni 1991

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