Tom Jones Lyrics

Album: Delilah

Delilah Lyrics

Detroit City

Artist: Tom Jones (peak Billboard position # 27 in 1967)

previously a # 16 hit for Bobby Bare

Words and Music by Danny Dill and Mel Tillis

Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City

I dreamed about them cotton fields of home

I dreamed about my mother, dear old pappy, sister and brother

And I dreamed about the girl who’s been waitin’ 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 just fine, yes they do

But by day I make the cars and by night I make the bars

If only they could read between the lines

SPOKEN 

[ ‘cause you know I rode a freight train north to Detroit City

And after all these years I find I’ve just been wastin’ my time

You know what I’m gonna do? 

I’m gonna take my foolish pride

Get it on a southbound freight and let it ride

I’m gonna go back to the loved ones

The ones I left waiting so far behind]

I wanna go home, yeah

I wanna go home

Oh, how I wanna go home [Can’t you hear me?]

I wanna go home

Whoa, baby I wanna go home

Oh, how I wanna go home [Somebody help me]

I wanna go home, yeah

I wanna go home, whoa oh

Oh, how I wanna go home

FADE Hmm, I wanna go home


Transcribed by Ronald E. Hontz

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