I wanna go home, I wanna go home   Lord, how I want to go home      Last night I went to sleep in Detroit city   And I dreamed of those cotton fields and home   I dreamed about my mother, my papa, sister and brother   I dreamed about that girl who's been waitin' for so long      I want to go home, I want to go home   Lord, how 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 wanna go home, I wanna go home   Lord, how I want to go home      I rode a freight train north to Detroit City   And after all these years I've found I'm wasting my time   So I'll take my foolish pride put her on a southbound freight and ride   Go on back to the loved ones I've left so far behind      I wanna go home, I wanna go home   Lord, how I want to go home      I wanna go home, I wanna go home   Lord, how I want to go home