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 ronhontz worldnet.att.net