Detroit City tab

Detroit City

Detroit City:Bobby Bare.
#4 BB Adult Contemporary, #6 BB Hot Country Singles,
and # 16 on BB Hot 100 on RCA Records
in 1963.
***(This is the original from 1963, NOT the new sped up
    version.)***

INTRO: E F B F E
RIFF:
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CHORUS:
E                           A     E         B        E
I wanna go home, I wanna go home..oh, how I wanna go home.


#1.
E                    B                E
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City.
      B                                     E
And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home.
  A                                 E
I dreamed about my mother dear, old papa, sister and brother.
  Gb                                 B
I dreamed about that girl who's been waiting for so long.

CHORUS:
           E                A     E         B        E
I wanna go home, I wanna go home, oh, how I wanna go home.

#2.
B                    Gb             B
Home folks think I'm big in Detroit City.
         Gb                                  B
From the letters that I write they think I'm fine.
       E                       B
But by day I make the cars, by night I make the bars.
   Db   Fb         Db               Gb
If only they could read between the lines.

SPOKEN:
C         Gb              B
Cause you know I rode the freight train north to Detroit City.
                    Gb                          B
And after all these years I find I've just been wastin' my time
           E                  A       E
So, I just think I'll take my foolish pride..put it on a Southbound 
B
freight and ride.
                      Db
And go on back to the loved ones, the ones that I left waitin' 
   Gb
so far behind.

OUTRO:
           B                E     B         Gb       B
I wanna go home, I wanna go home, oh, how I wanna go home.



A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.

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