DETROIT CITY
Last night I went to sleep in the Detroit city
I dreamed about those cotton fields back home
I dreamed about my mother dear old papa sister and brother
I dreamed about the girl who's been waiting for so long
I want to go home I want to go home
Lord 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 cars and by night I make the bars
If only they could read between the lines
'Cause you know I rode a frieght train north to Detroit city
And after all these years I find I've just been wasting my time
So I think I'll just take my foolish pride
And put it on the southbound freight and ride
On back to the loved ones the ones I left waiting so far behind