I wanna go home

I wanna go home

Oh I wanna go home

Last night I went to sleep in Detroit city

And I dreamed about those cotton fields at home

I dreamed about my mother

Dear old Papa sister and brother

I dreamed about the girl

Who's been waiting for so long

I wanna go home I wanna go home

Oh how I wanna go home

Some 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

By night I make the bars

If only they could read between the lines

Cuz you know

I rode a freight train north to Detroit city

And after all these years

I find that I've just been wastin' my time

So I think I'll take my foolish pride

Put on a south bound freight and ride

And goin' back to the love ones

The ones I left waiting so far behind

I wanna go home I wanna go home

Oh how I want to go home