I want to go home,
I want to go home
Lord, how I want to go home
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City
And I dreamed of those
cotton fields and homes
I dreamed about my mother,
my papa, sister and brother
I dreamed about that girl
who's been waiting for so long
I want to go home, I want to go home
Lord, how I want to go home
Oh, 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 cards
By night I make the bars
If only they could read
Between the lines
I wanna go home
I wanna go home
Oh, how I want to go home
I rode a freight train north to Detroit City
And after all these years
I found I'm wasting my time
So I'll take my fool's pride
Put it on a southbound freighten ride
Go back to the loved ones
I left so far behind
I wanna go home
I wanna go home
Lord, how I want to go home
I wanna go home, I wanna go home,
I wanna go today