Detroit City chords by Bobby Bare

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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