[ti:Detroit City] [ar:Bobby Bare] [al:The Essential Bobby Bare] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Detroit City - Bobby Bare [00:11.15]I wanna go home I wanna go home oh how I wanna go home [00:27.34]Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City [00:34.70]And I dreamed about those cottonfields and home [00:43.32]I dreamed about my mother dear old papa sister and brother [00:51.13]I dreamed about that girl who's been waiting for so long [00:58.26]I wanna go home I wanna go home oh how I wanna go home [01:23.36]Homefolks think I'm big in Detroit City [01:30.58]From the letters that I write they think I'm fine [01:38.07]But by day I make the cars by night I make the bars [01:46.75]If only they could read between the lines [01:55.63]Cause you know I rode the freight train north to Detroit City [02:02.19]And after all these years I find I've just been wastin' my time [02:09.20]So I just think I'll take my foolish pride and put it on a Southbound freight and ride [02:17.55]And go on back to the loved ones the ones that I left waitin' so far behind [02:25.43]I wanna go home I wanna go home oh how I wanna go home