| C | G7/C G7 | G7 | G7 | C |

[Chorus]
C
 I wanna go home
           F
I wanna go home
C         G        C
Oh, how I wanna go home

[Verse 1]
                     G                C
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit city
      G                                    C
And I dreamed about those cotton fields at home
  F
I dreamed about my mother, dear old papa, sister and brother
  D
I dreamed about that girl
D7           G
  Who's been waiting for so long

[Chorus]
           C
I wanna go home
           F
I wanna go home
C         G          C
Oh, how I want to go home

[Interlude]
| C | G7/C G7 | G7 | G7 |

[Verse 2]
C                    G              C
Home folks think I'm big in Detroit city
         G                                   C
From the letters that I write they think I'm fine
       F
But by day I make the cars
       C
And by night I make the bars
   D    D7                          G
If only they could read between the lines

[Bridge]
C         G                               C
You know, I rode a freight train north to Detroit city
G                                                      C
After all these years I find I've just been wastin' my time
     F                                                    C
So I just think I'll take my foolish pride, put on a southbound train and ride
                            D                                          G
And go on back to the loved ones, the ones I left waitin' so far behind

[Chorus]
           C
I wanna go home
           F
I wanna go home
C         G          C
Oh, how I want to go home

[Chorus]
C
I wanna go home
           F
I wanna go home
C         G          C
Oh, how I want to go home...

[Outro]
F        C
(Aaah...,aaah
            F
(I wanna go home)
C          G          C
(Oh, how I want to go home)
                               F
(I wanna go home.., I wanna go home)