Key: E
Introduction:
C F C
I wanna go home, i wanna go home, oh how i
G C
Wanna go home
C G C
Last night i went to sleep in detroit city
G
And i dreamed about the cotton fields and home
C
F
I dreamed about my mother, dear old papa sister
And brother
D
And i dreamed about the girl who's been waiting
G
For so long
chorus
C G C
Homefolks think i'm big in detroit city
G
From the letters that i write they think i'm fine
C F
But by day i make the cars by night i make the bars
D G
If they could only read between the lines
Chorus
C G
Cause you know i road a freight train north to
C
Detroit city
And after all these years i find i've just been
G
Wasting my time
C
F
So i think i'll take my foolish pride and put it on a
South bound freight
D
And ride and go back to the loved ones
G
The ones i left behind
Chorus