I want to go home
  I want to go home
  Oh, how I want to go home
  
  You know last night I went to sleep in Detroit city
  And I dreamed about those cotton fields back 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 want to go home
  I want to go home
  Oh, how I want to go home
  
  folks think I'm big in Detroit city
  From the letters 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
  
  You know I rode a freight train north to Detroit city
  After all these years I find I've just been wasting my time
  So I just think I'll take my foolish pride put on a southbound train and ride
  And go on back to the loved ones the ones I left there waiting so far behind
  
  I want to go home
  I want to go home
  Oh, how I want to go home