Lyr Req/Add: Detroit City (from Bobby Bare)

Subject: Origins: detroit city
From: Rasta
Date: 02 Mar 04 - 06:08 PM

i wanna go home ,i wanna go home ---hey gang its only me im lookin for the the writer of (detroit city ) for some reason ive been hummin that tune lately and tried to pick it with a few friends ,for some reason i thnk bobby bare did it way back so if anyone has the scoop let me know including lyrics ----peace out and grovvinesss---rastaaaaaaaa

Subject: Lyr Add: DETROIT CITY (from Tom Jones)
From: Allan C.
Date: 02 Mar 04 - 06:33 PM

This and the lyrics to nearly any "oldies" song can be found at Lyrics World.

Detroit City

Artist: Tom Jones (peak Billboard position # 27 in 1967)
previously a # 16 hit for Bobby Bare
Words and Music by Danny Dill and Mel Tillis

DETROIT CITY
(Danny Dill and Mel Tillis)

Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City
I dreamed about them cotton fields of home
I dreamed about my mother, dear old pappy, sister and brother
And I dreamed about the girl who's been waitin' for so long

I wanna go home
I wanna go home
Oh, how I wanna go home

Home folks think I'm big in Detroit City
From the letters that I write they think I'm just fine, yes they do
But by day I make the cars and by night I make the bars
If only they could read between the lines

SPOKEN
[ 'cause you know I rode a freight train north to Detroit City
And after all these years I find I've just been wastin' my time
You know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna take my foolish pride
Get it on a southbound freight and let it ride
I'm gonna go back to the loved ones
The ones I left waiting so far behind]

I wanna go home, yeah
I wanna go home
Oh, how I wanna go home [Can't you hear me?]

I wanna go home
Whoa, baby I wanna go home
Oh, how I wanna go home [Somebody help me]

I wanna go home, yeah
I wanna go home, whoa oh
Oh, how I wanna go home

FADE Hmm, I wanna go home

Subject: RE: Origins: detroit city
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Mar 04 - 06:36 PM

It's been done by Dolly Parton, Bobby Bare, Tom Jones, and Dean Martin (!), too.

Subject: RE: Origins: detroit city
From: Rasta
Date: 02 Mar 04 - 06:47 PM

thank ya much

Subject: RE: Origins: detroit city
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 02 Mar 04 - 07:22 PM

Detroit City, Bobby Bare, can be heard on the Record Lady, Archives p. 5.
Detroit City No. 2 is on Requests page 9
Record Lady

Subject: RE: Origins: detroit city
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 02 Mar 04 - 07:24 PM

http://recordlady.webgcs.com/main2.htm
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