Detroit City tab by Bobby Bare

Tabs

Detroit City:Bobby Bare.
6 BB Hot Country Singles,
and # 16 on BB Hot 100 on RCA Records
in 1963.
***(This is the original from 1963, NOT the new sped up
  version.)***

INTRO: E MajorE FF BB FF E MajorE
RIFF:
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CHORUS:
E MajorE              A augmentedA   E MajorE     BB    E MajorE
I wanna go home, I wanna go home..oh, how I wanna go home.


#1.
E MajorE          BB        E MajorE
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City.
   BB                   E MajorE
And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home.
 A augmentedA                 E MajorE
I dreamed about my mother dear, old papa, sister and brother.
 GbGb                 BB
I dreamed about that girl who's been waiting for so long.

CHORUS:
      E MajorE        A augmentedA   E MajorE     BB    E MajorE
I wanna go home, I wanna go home, oh, how I wanna go home.

#2.
BB          GbGb       BB
Home folks think I'm big in Detroit City.
     GbGb                 BB
From the letters that I write they think I'm fine.
    E MajorE            BB
But by day I make the cars, by night I make the bars.
  DbDb  FbFb     DbDb        GbGb
If only they could read between the lines.

SPOKEN:
C majorC     GbGb       BB
Cause you know I rode the freight train north to Detroit City.
          GbGb             BB
And after all these years I find I've just been wastin' my time
      E MajorE         A augmentedA    E MajorE
So, I just think I'll take my foolish pride..put it on a Southbound
BB
freight and ride.
           DbDb
And go on back to the loved ones, the ones that I left waitin'
  GbGb
so far behind.

OUTRO:
      BB        E MajorE   BB     GbGb    BB
I wanna go home, I wanna go home, oh, how I wanna go home.


A augmentedA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.

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