Bobby Bare - Detroit City Lyrics
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 that girl who's been waiting for so long
I wanna go home, I wanna go home, oh, how I wanna go home.
Homefolks 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.
'Cause you know I rode the freight train north to Detroit City
And after all these years I find I've just been wastin' my time
And put it on a Southbound freight and ride.
And go on back to the loved ones, the ones that I left waitin' so far behind.
I wanna go home, I wanna go home,
Oh, how I wanna go home...
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Bobby Bare Detroit City Comments
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hello cảm on bạn
I remember my Dad playing this song as a child and singing to me. What I wouldn't give for one more ride in his old pick up. 😔
WHAT IS CALLED COUNTRY MUSIC NOW IS NOT!!! country music!!! ITS PURE TRASH!!! JOHNNY FROM ALABAMA
노래 죽여준다 아이원어고홈 캬 완전끝났다
Great Tune!
al gehoort juli 1963 ,eerste reis 5,1\2maand,ms theron canada
THIS, my friends, is COUNTRY MUSIC.
Best sounding guitar-tuning ever!
Great classic song. Bring back old memories.
Awe my dad was the only one who could make my uncle pull his guitar out and play this song miss them both till we meet again love ya dad and uncle
my kinda music
I credit my dad with my love of country music . My dad listened to all the greats . Hank Sr. Johnny Cash , George Jones , Merle Haggard , Stonewall Jackson , Freddie Hart etc.
And my love of classic rock came from my mom .
Fats Domino , Jerry Lee Lewis , Elvis , Buddy Holly etc.
No shortage of great music in the house as a kid growing up .
Both my mom and dad have passed on and I miss them everyday .
Thank you for being such great parents , I was very lucky . love & miss you both dearly . ❤
I had known this song in 1968.
내가 좋아하는 노래!😊
I’m a trucker from Cleveland Ohio. I was trucking up to Detroit City last night
Love this song
keep them wheels a rolling and the dirty side down. cheers .
Anybody here from my compound in DA Nang south Vietnam 1967=68 I would sing this every Friday night
Vietnam is considered a vacation spot now for the wealthy. Lots of videos of best places to go. Something wrong with this whole picture.
I love this song, makes me home sick too, even if Im home.
I missed Kansas listening to this song.
I'm in New York and I want to go home to Georgia. I'm more than 500 miles from home.
Darin Crump I’m in NY and want to go back home to the west coast.
https://youtu.be/cj_C_uG4jVg
Me too. Born and raised in Pontiac. There is just nothing left to go home to. It kicks my ass folks.
F****g sad but true!!!
I love this song
I missed my mom and dad and everyone in the family, I feel sad and homesick. Thank you Bobby Bare for this nice tune and thanks sharing.
I sure wished they still made music like this. I love Bobby Bare...♥️♥️♥️
Tammy Stone I HAD ALWAYS LOVED CLASSIC COUNTRY MUSIC
Larry's country kitchen
This song is more important than every one know. It's great.
I love Bobby Bare
I travel through his neck of the woods every now and then
Pedro Ohio
This song reminds me of my Mom 💕 she used to sing it to me.😇 She went home, going on 13 yrs ago I miss her and think about her everyday RIP 🌷 MOMMA
There was a great parody of this song by comedy singer Ben Colder. The version below is not the one I was looking for, it's a Live version, raw the studio, I think. But it'll do.
The original, if you can find it, is better. But this is also good & includes some different comedy bits.
"Detroit City #2" by Ben Colder/Sheb Wooley
https://youtu.be/QA1WCXq6_oE
Nobody is any near to ....Bobby Bare.....in his way to sing!
Eddy Willy Berg
Bergen
Norway
One of Dad's favorites.We miss you everyday dad
This song was sung by M.A.S.H units in vietnam....God bless those nurses and doctors...
I have this record as a 45 , one of my all time favourites , such sad but brilliant lyrics .
Detroit a have you like that! LoL 😂😁😂
At secondary school we used to sing "I wanna go home ... " because ... we wanted to go home.
I was a young teenager in the early sixties in Baltimore. Back then the Top 40 consisted of songs from various genres. And I loved them all. Now most stations only play one type of music. Why do we need to put everything in life in pigeon holes and not just music.
Buddy Dean show is when and where I first heard this classic
throam central ™
Lmao, I was looking for someone else
Who the fuck wants to go to Detroit now??? ......😂😂😂
I live in west Texas, I went to Detroit City to meet my fiance after we parted, she went home to Canada & and I slept there one more night, then decided to go back home, but i had to go to the hospital instead, and wound up getting to spend another week in Detroit City with my fiance before i got to go back home.
I just knew there was a song about Detroit City. Thanks for the upload
Abram Zacharias cool story bro
I lived and worked in Detroit and missed El Paso a lot.
Amazing. I love this song thank you so much!!
Now I'm homesick. Thanks. lol
In 1963 I was a junior in H.S. in Missouri, I always like this and 500 miles from home.
Art Johnson where at in Missouri?!
ya where at I am in cassville
Me too. Both are the best.
Mel knew how to write a country song boy, miss him a lot.
Yeehaw!
Co -written by Mel Tillis ...
Sure was!
Garner State Park jukebox ... ahhh, such great memories.
TO MY DEAREST LOVING MOTHER MAY SHE REST IN PEACE I LOVE AND MISS YOU
God bless you.
A good old song which made it big on both the Country and POP charts......nice....!!!
We are looking for lots of new members to join our new country facebook music site.....come on over and join us....
https://www.facebook.com/groups/274622305997241/
it brings back a whole lot of memories
Beatifull,thank you Bobby
Can't hear it enough
oh god i love that song
so cool .. thank you