I wan na go home...
I wanna go home...
Oh, how I want to go home...
Last night, I went to sleep in
Detroit
City
And dreamed about the life I left at home
I dreamed about my mother,
dear old papa, sister and brother
I dreamed about that girl who's
been waiting for so long
I wanna go home, I wanna go home
Oh, how I want to go home
Home 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 calls,
by night I make the bars
If they could only read between the lines
As you know,
I took a freight train north to
Detroit
City
And after all these years,
I find that I'm just wasting my time
So I think I'll take my foolish pride
And put it on a freight train
south and right
And go on back to the loved
ones I left so far behind
I wanna go home, I wanna go home
Oh, how I want to go home
Oh, how I want to go home
Oh, how I want to go home.