Tom Jones Lyrics

Album: Country Memories

Detroit City Lyrics

Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City,

 and I dreamed about those cotton fields 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 wanna 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 cars,

 and by night I make the bars,

 If only they could read between the lines!

 

 [Spoken]

 

 You know,

 I rode a freight train north to Detroit City.

 After all these years,

 I find that I've just been wastin' my time.

 So I just think I'll take my foolish pride,

 put on a south bound freight and ride,

 Goin' back to the love ones,

 The ones I left waitin' so far behind.

 

 I wanna go home, I wanna go home,

 oh, how I want to go home.