I wanna go home, i wanna go home, oh how i
Wanna go home
Last night i went to sleep in detroit city
And i dreamed about the cotton fields and home
I dreamed about my mother, dear old papa sister
And brother
And i dreamed about the girl who's been waiting
For so long
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Homefolks 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 they could only read between the lines
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Cause you know i road 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 and put it on a
South bound freight
And ride and go back to the loved ones
The ones i left behind
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