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
spoken
you know
i rode a freight train north to detroit city
after all these years
i find that i’ve just been wastin’ my time
so i just think i’ll take my foolish pride
put on a south bound freight and ride
goin’ back to the love ones
the ones i left waitin’ so far behind
i wanna go home i wanna go home
oh how i want to go home
Artist: Tom Jones
Year: 1967
Decade: 60s
Language: en
Word Count: 95