You know last night I went to sleep in Detroit city
  And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home
  I dreamed about my mother, dear old papa, sisters and brothers
  And I dreamed about a love who's been waiting there so long
  I want to go home
  I want to go home
  Oh how I want to go home
  My kinfolks think I'm big in Detraoit city
  From all the letters that I write, they think I'm fine
  By day I make the cars
  But, by night I make all the bars
  Oh if only they's just read between the lines
  
  They'd know I want to go home
  I want to go home
  Oh how I want to go home
  
  You know I rode a freight train north to Detroit city
  And after all these years I find I've been wasting my time
  Think I'll put my foolish pride on a southbound train and ride
  Heading back to the loved ones I left there waiting behind
  
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