I wanna go home, I wanna go home, oh how I wanna go home

Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City

And I dreamed about those cottonfields and 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

Homefolks think I'm big in Detroit City

From the letters that I write they think I'm fine

By day I make the cars, by night I make the bars

If only they could read between the lines

'Cause you know I rode the freight train north to Detroit City

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

So I just think I'll take my foolish pride

Put it on a Southbound freight and ride

And go on back to the loved ones, the ones that I left waitin' so far behind

I wanna go home, I wanna go home, oh how I wanna go home