"Detroit City" lyrics

I wanna go home
I wanna go home
Oh, how I want to go home

Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City
I dreamed about those cotton fields back home
I dreamed about my mother
My daddy, sisters and brothers
And I dreamed about that girl
Who I left waiting for so long

I want to go home
See, I want to go home
Oh, how I want to go home

You see the homefolks think
I'm big in Detroit City
From the letters that I write
They think I'm doing fine, yes they do
But by day I make the cars
And by night I make the bars
If only they could read between the lines

Because, you know I caught a freight train
To Detroit City
And after all these years I realized now
I've just been wasting my time
You know, what I'm gonna do
I'm gonna take this foolish pride
Get on a southbound freight and let it ride
And go back to those ones that love me
Those ones that are waiting for me
Waiting back behind

I wanna go home
Can you help me get back home
Somebody, oh
Oh, how I want to go home
I just go to get home home
Oh, you see I got to get home home