Gene Rockwell - Gene Rockwell and Friends (The 21st Anniversary Album)

Detroit City (feat. Billy Forrest)

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

Last night I went to sleep
In Detroit City
And I dreamed about those cottonfields and home
I dreamed about my mother,
Dear old papa, sister and brother
An' I dreamed about that girl
Who's been waiting for so long

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

Some 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 bars,
And by night I make the cars
If only they could read
Between the lines

'Cause you know
I rode a freight train north to Detroit City
And after all these years
I find I've just been wasting my time
So I think I'll just take my foolish pride
Put it on a Southbound freight and ride

And go back to the loved ones
The ones I left way so far behind

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



Credits
Writer(s): Mel Tillis, Danny Dill
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Hands
  2. Detroit City (feat. Billy Forrest)
  3. Honkytonk Angels (feat. Joanna Field)
  4. He Stopped Loving Her Today (feat. Lance James)
  5. I Need Someone to Hold Me (feat. Sally Vaughn)
  6. Ebony Eyes (feat. Pierre De Charmoy)
  7. Oh How I Miss You Tonight (feat. Chrissy Jackson)
  8. Vevlet Chains (feat. Marie Gibson)
  9. Cry to Me
  10. Bye Bye Love (feat. Matt Hurter)

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Altri album

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  2. Colours of Africa (Collectors Edition)
  3. Gene Rockwell and Friends (The 21st Anniversary Album)
  4. Songs of Faith + Hope
  5. Bly By My Heer
  6. Rosie
  7. Heart and Soul Of
  8. The Heart and Soul Of
  9. Gene Rockwell
  10. Lifetime Guarantee

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