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
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