Retro Lyrics

 

DETROIT CITY

 

Last night I went to sleep in the Detroit city

I dreamed about those cotton fields back home

I dreamed about my mother dear old papa sister and brother

I dreamed about the girl who's been waiting 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 and by night I make the bars

If only they could read between the lines

 

'Cause you know I rode a frieght train north to Detroit city

And after all these years I find I've just been wasting my time

So I think I'll just take my foolish pride

And put it on the southbound freight and ride

On back to the loved ones the ones I left waiting so far behind

 


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