Bobby Bare – Detroit City (Guitar)

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Bobby Bare 1963 (Danny Dill / Mel Tillis) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_City_(song) [Intro] E5 E5/F E5/F# E5/F E [Chorus]
           E    E7           A
I wanna go home,  I wanna go home

E         B7       E
Oh, how I wanna go home
[Verse 1]
     E               B7               E
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City

      B7                                    E    E7
And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home

  A
I dreamed about my mother,

         E
dear old papa, sister and brother,

  F#
I dreamed about that girl,

           B7
who's been waiting for so long
[Chorus]
           E    E7           A
I wanna go home,  I wanna go home

E         B7       E
Oh, how I wanna go home
[Instrumental MODULATE up to B] E5 E5/F E5/F# [Verse 2]
B                    F#             B
Home folks think I'm big in Detroit City

         F#                                  B    B7
From the letters that I write they think I'm fine

       E
But by day I make the cars,

   B
by night I make the bars

   C#                               F#
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 that I've just been wastin' my time So I just think I'll take my foolish pride, and put it on a southbound freight and ride Go on back to the loved ones, The ones that I left waitin' so far behind [Chorus]
           B    B7           E
I wanna go home,  I wanna go home

B         F#       B
Oh, how I wanna go home
[Fade out with Instrumental MODULATION back down to E] E5/F# E5/F E Set8