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Bill Anderson lyrics - Detroit City

album: The Best of Bill Anderson [Curb] (1991)
album: Out in the Country [Drive Archive] (1994)
album: I Wonder if God Likes Country Music [Fat Boy] (1995)
album: By Request [Varese] (2000)
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(Mel Tillis - Danny Dill)

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 the cottonfields and home
I dreamed about my mother dear old daddy sister and brother
And I dreamed about the sweetheart who's waited for so long.

I wanna go home, I wanna go home
Oh Lord, I wanna go home.

The homefolks think I'm big in Detroit City
From the letters that I write they think I'm fine
By day I make the cars by night I make the bars
If only they could read between the lines.

I wanna go home, I wanna go home
Oh Lord, I wanna go home.

You know I rode the freight train up north to Detroit City
And after all these years I find I've just been wastin' my time
I think I'm just gonna take my foolish pride
And put on a Southbound freight and ride.
Back to the loved ones who waited for so long

I wanna go home, I wanna go home,
Oh Lord, I wanna go home.

I wanna go home, I wanna go home
Oh Lord, I wanna go home...