I wanna go home
I wanna go home
Oh how 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
I dreamed about that girl
whose been waiting
for so long
I wanna go home
I wanna go home
Oh how 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
From the letters that I write
They think I'm fine
But by day I make the cars
By night I make the bars
If only they could read
between the lines
'Cause 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 just think
I'll take my foolish pride and
put it on a southbound freight
and ride
And go on back to the
loved ones
The ones that
I left waitin' so far behind
I wanna go home
I wanna go home
Oh how I wanna go home
for so long