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Song title: Bobby Bare - Detroit City

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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 whos been waitin?for so long

I wanna go home
 I wanna go home
 Oh, how I wanna go home

Home folks think Im big in Detroit City
 From the letters that I write they think Im 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 Ive just been wastin?my time
 You know what Im gonna do?
 Im gonna take my foolish pride
 Get it on a southbound freight and let it ride
 Im 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 [Cant 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
 ronhontz@worldnet.att.net

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