DETROIT CITY
(Mel Tillis / Danny Dill)

Bobby Bare - 1963
Jan & Dean - 1963
Ben Colder - 1963
Kai Winding - 1964
Dean Martin - 1964
Charley Pride - 1966
Tom Jones - 1967
Johnny Cash - 1970
Also recorded by: Carl Perkins; Bill Anderson; Jerry Lee Lweis; Solomon Burke; Flying Burrito Brothers; 
Jim Nabors; Flatt & Scruggs; Hank Williams Jr; RFD Boys; Ace Cannon; Webb Pierce. 


I want to go home, I want to go home,
Oh Lord, I want to 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,
And I dreamed about that girl, who's been waitin' for so long

I want to go home, I want to go home,
Oh Lord, I want to 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

I want to go home, I want to go home,
Oh Lord, I want to go home

SPOKEN: 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 take my foolish pride, put it on a southbound freight and ride,
Go on back to the ones I left, who've been waitin' for so long

I want to go home, I want to go home,
Oh Lord, I want to go home.