Detroit City lyrics

Artist  : Bobby Bare 
Song : Detroit City
 


Detroit City

Artist: Tom Jones (peak
Billboard position # 27 in 1967)
previously a
# 16 hit for Bobby Bare
Words and Music by
Danny Dill and Mel Tillis

Last night I
went to sleep in Detroit City
I dreamed about
them cotton fields of home
I dreamed about my
mother, dear old pappy, sister and brother
And
I dreamed about the girl who’s been waitin’
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 just fine,
yes they do
But by day I make the cars and by
night I make the bars
If only they could read
between the lines

SPOKEN
[ ‘cause you
know I rode a freight train north to Detroit
City
And after all these years I find I’ve
just been wastin’ my time
You know what
I’m gonna do?
I’m gonna take my foolish
pride
Get it on a southbound freight and let
it ride
I’m gonna go back to the loved
ones
The ones I left waiting so far
behind]

I wanna go home, yeah
I wanna
go home
Oh, how I wanna go home [Can’t you
hear me?]

I wanna go home
Whoa, baby I
wanna go home
Oh, how I wanna go home
[Somebody help me]

I wanna go home,
yeah
I wanna go home, whoa oh
Oh, how I
wanna go home

FADE Hmm, I wanna go
home


Transcribed by Ronald E.
Hontz
ronhontz
worldnet.att.net