Standard (EADGBE)

 I want to go home, I want to go home

Oh, how I want to go home

Last night I went to sleep in Detroit city

 And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home

 I dreamed about my mother,

 dear old papa, sister and brother,

 And I dreamed about that girl,

 whose been waitin' for so long

 I want to go home, I want to go home

Oh, how I want to go home

 Home folks think I'm big in Detroit city

 From the letters that I write they think I'm fine

 But by day I make the cars,

 by night I make the bars

 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

 I want to go home, I want to go home

Oh, how I want to go home