{"id":28246,"date":"2026-01-04T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=28246"},"modified":"2026-02-10T23:14:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T23:14:01","slug":"detroit-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/detroit-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit City"},"content":{"rendered":"

jim plaster https:\/\/youtu.be\/mmgACk3_8qk<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bobby Bare<\/p>\n

Detroit City chords\r\nBobby Bare 1963 (Danny Dill \/ Mel Tillis)\r\n \r\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Detroit_City_(song)\r\n \r\n[Intro]\r\n \r\nC5<\/span> C5\/C#<\/span> C5\/D<\/span> C5\/C#<\/span> C<\/span>\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n \r\n           C<\/span>    C7<\/span>           F<\/span>\r\nI wanna go home,  I wanna go home\r\nC<\/span>         G7<\/span>       C<\/span>\r\nOh, how I wanna go home\r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\n \r\n     C<\/span>               G7<\/span>               C<\/span>\r\nLast night I went to sleep in Detroit City\r\n      G7<\/span>                                    C<\/span>    C7<\/span>\r\nAnd I dreamed about those cotton fields and home\r\n  F<\/span>\r\nI dreamed about my mother,\r\n         C<\/span>\r\ndear old papa, sister and brother,\r\n  D<\/span>\r\nI dreamed about that girl,\r\n           G7<\/span>\r\nwho's been waiting for so long\r\n\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n \r\n           C<\/span>    C7<\/span>           F<\/span>\r\nI wanna go home,  I wanna go home\r\nC<\/span>         G7<\/span>       C<\/span>\r\nOh, how I wanna go home\r\n \r\n \r\n[Instrumental MODULATE up to B]\r\nC5<\/span>   C5\/C#<\/span>  C5\/D<\/span>\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\n \r\nG<\/span>                    D<\/span>             G<\/span>\r\nHome folks think I'm big in Detroit City\r\n         D<\/span>                                  G<\/span>    G7<\/span>\r\nFrom the letters that I write they think I'm fine\r\n       C<\/span>\r\nBut by day I make the cars,\r\n   G\r\nby night I make the bars\r\n   A                               D\r\nIf only they could read between the lines\r\n \r\n[Spoken]\r\n \r\nCause you know, I rode a freight train north to Detroit City\r\nAnd after all these years I find that I've just been wastin' my time\r\nSo I just think I'll take my foolish pride, and\r\nput it on a southbound freight and ride\r\nGo on back to the loved ones,\r\nThe ones that I left waitin' so far behind\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n \r\n           G    G7           C\r\nI wanna go home,  I wanna go home\r\nG         D       G\r\nOh, how I wanna go home\r\n \r\n \r\n[Fade out with Instrumental MODULATION back down to E]\r\nC5\/D   C5\/C#  C\r\n \r\nSet8<\/pre>\n
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jim plaster https:\/\/youtu.be\/mmgACk3_8qk 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 … CLICK TO VIEW SONGDetroit City<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29834,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28246\/revisions\/29834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}