Detroit City:Bobby Bare.
#4 BB Adult Contemporary, #6 BB Hot Country Singles,
and # 16 on BB Hot 100 on RCA Records
in 1963.
***(This is the original from 1963, NOT the new sped up
version.)***
INTRO: E F B F E
RIFF:
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CHORUS:
E A E B E
I wanna go home, I wanna go home..oh, how I wanna go home.
#1.
E B E
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City.
B E
And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home.
A E
I dreamed about my mother dear, old papa, sister and brother.
Gb B
I dreamed about that girl who's been waiting for so long.
CHORUS:
E A E B E
I wanna go home, I wanna go home, oh, how I wanna go home.
#2.
B Gb B
Home folks think I'm big in Detroit City.
Gb B
From the letters that I write they think I'm fine.
E B
But by day I make the cars, by night I make the bars.
Db Fb Db Gb
If only they could read between the lines.
SPOKEN:
C Gb B
Cause you know I rode the freight train north to Detroit City.
Gb B
And after all these years I find I've just been wastin' my time
E A E
So, I just think I'll take my foolish pride..put it on a Southbound
B
freight and ride.
Db
And go on back to the loved ones, the ones that I left waitin'
Gb
so far behind.
OUTRO:
B E B Gb B
I wanna go home, I wanna go home, oh, how I wanna go home.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
