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 cottonfields and home i dreamed about my mother dear old papa sister and brother and 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 instrumental homefolks 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 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 think i ll just take my follish pride an put it on a southbound freight and ride and go back to the loved ones the ones that i left behind i wanna go home i wanna go home oh how i wanna go home 