Detroit City (I Wanna Go Home) chords by Arthur Alexander

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Verse 1
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I wanna go home...
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I wanna go home...
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Oh, how I want to go home...
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Last night, I went to sleep in
Detroit
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City
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And dreamed about the life I left at home
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I dreamed about my mother,
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dear old papa, sister and brother
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I dreamed about that girl who's
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been waiting for so long
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I wanna go home, I wanna go home
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Oh, how I want to go home
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Home folks think I'm big in
Detroit
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City
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From the letters that I write,
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they think I'm fine
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But by day I make the calls,
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by night I make the bars
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If they could only read between the lines
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As you know,
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I took a freight train north to
Detroit
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And  after all these years,
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I find that I'm just wasting my time
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So I think I'll take my foolish pride
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And put it on a freight train
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south and right
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And go on back to the loved
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ones I left so far behind
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I wanna go home, I wanna go home
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Oh, how I want to go home
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Oh, how I want to go home
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Oh, how I want to go home.