I want to go home, I want to go home,   Oh Lord, I want to go home,      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, sister and brother,   And I dreamed about that girl,   whose been waitin' for so long,      I want to go home, I want to go home,   Oh Lord, I want to go home,      Home folks think I'm big in Detroit city,   From the letters that I write they think I'm fine,   But by day I make the cars,   by night I make the bars,   If only they could read between the lines,      I want to go home, I want to go home,   Oh Lord, I want to go home,      I rode a freight train north to Detroit city,   After all these years I've been wasting my time,   I'll take my foolish pride,   on a southbound freight and ride,   Go on back to the ones,   EI've left waitin' so far behind,      I want to go home, I want to go home,   Oh Lord, I want to go home.