Guitar chords with lyrics
Detroit City chords Bobby Bare 1963 (Danny Dill / Mel Tillis)E MajorE
E MajorE
E7E7
A augmentedA I want to go home, I want to go home
E MajorE
B7B7
E MajorE Oh, how I want to go home
E MajorE
B7B7
E MajorE Last night I went to sleep in Detroit city
B7B7
E MajorE
E7E7 And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home
A augmentedA I dreamed about my mother,
E MajorE dear old papa, sister and brother,
F#F# And I dreamed about that girl,
B7B7 whose been waitin' for so long
E MajorE
E7E7
A augmentedA I want to go home, I want to go home
E MajorE
B7B7
E MajorE Oh, how I want to go home
E MajorE
B7B7
E MajorE Home folks think I'm big in Detroit city
B7B7
E MajorE
E7E7 From the letters that I write they think I'm fine
A augmentedA But by day I make the cars,
E MajorE by night I make the bars
F#F#
B7B7 If only they could read between the lines spoken I rode a freight train north to Detroit city After all these years I've been wasting my time I'll take my foolish pride, on a southbound freight and ride Go on back to the ones, I've left waitin' so far behind
E MajorE
E7E7
A augmentedA I want to go home, I want to go home
E MajorE
B7B7
E MajorE Oh, how I want to go home Set8
ⓘ Guitar chords for 'Detroit City' by Bobby Bare, a male country artist from Ironton, Ohio, USA. Bobby Bare was born in 1935.