Detroit City

jim plaster

Bobby Bare

Detroit City chords
Bobby Bare 1963 (Danny Dill / Mel Tillis)
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_City_(song)
 
[Intro]
 
C5 C5/C# C5/D C5/C# C
 
{ CHORUS }
 
           C    C7           F
I wanna go home,  I wanna go home
C         G7       C
Oh, how I wanna go home
 
[Verse 1]
 
     C               G7               C
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City
      G7                                    C    C7
And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home
  F
I dreamed about my mother,
         C
dear old papa, sister and brother,
  D
I dreamed about that girl,
           G7
who's been waiting for so long

 
{ CHORUS }
 
           C    C7           F
I wanna go home,  I wanna go home
C         G7       C
Oh, how I wanna go home
 
 
[Instrumental MODULATE up to B]
C5   C5/C#  C5/D
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
G                    D             G
Home folks think I'm big in Detroit City
         D                                  G    G7
From the letters that I write they think I'm fine
       C
But by day I make the cars,
   G
by night I make the bars
   A                               D
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 }
 
           G    G7           C
I wanna go home,  I wanna go home
G         D       G
Oh, how I wanna go home
 
 
[Fade out with Instrumental MODULATION back down to E]
C5/D   C5/C#  C
 
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