Written by: Danny Dill, Mel Tillis
# Debut Chart
16 Jun '63 Hot 100
4 Jun '63 Adult Contemp
6 Jul '63 Country

I wanna go home
I wanna go home
Oh, how I wanna 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
I dreamed about that girl
Who's been waiting 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 fine

But by day, I make the cars
By night, I make the bars
If only they could
Read between the lines

Cause you know I rode
A freight train north
To Detroit City and
After all these years I find
I've just been wasting my time

So I just think I'll
Take my foolish pride
And put it on a southbound
Freight and ride

Go on back to the loved ones
The ones that I left
Waiting so far behind

I wanna go home
I wanna go home
Oh, how I wanna go home

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