Detroit City chords by Bobby Bare

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


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