Detroit City

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[Verse]

     E               B      
Last night I went to sleep in 
          E
Detroit city
      B                       
And I dreamed about the cotton 
           E
fields at home.
  A                                
I dreamed about my mother, dear old
 E
 Papa, sister and brother
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And I dreamed about that girl who’s
      B
 been waiting for so long.
           E                A     
I wanna go home, I wanna go home, 
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oh how I wanna go home.


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[Verse 2]

     E                B           
Home, folks think I’m big in 
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Detroit city,
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From the letters that I write they 
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thinks I’m just fine, yes they do
       A                       E
But by day I make the cars, by night
 I make the bars
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If only they could read between the
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 lines! If they could


[Verse 3]

E                  B             
‘cause you know, I rode the 
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freight train north to Detroit city,
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And after all these years I find 
                                E
that I’ve just been wastin’ my time.
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So I just think that I’ll take my 
                               E
foolish pride and put it on a south 
bound freight and let it ride
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Going back to the loved ones, the 
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ones that I left waitin’ so far 
behind.


[Coda]


           E                A     
I wanna go home, I wanna go home, 
E        B        E    B
oh how I wanna go home.
           E                A     
I wanna go home, I wanna go home, 
E        B        E    B
oh how I wanna go home.
           E                A     
I wanna go home, I wanna go home, 
E        B        E
oh how I wanna go home.