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    The song is about a man who had gone to sleep in Detroit City and dreamed of returning home to the cotton fields, his mother, papa, sister and brother, and a girl who had been waiting for him. During the day he works making cars in Detroit but feels homesick. At night he goes to bars to try and forget his longing to return home. He decides to take the next southbound freight train back to the people he left waiting for him.

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    two new songs for our 3/16/13 event

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    New Songs for 031613

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    The song is about a man who had gone to sleep in Detroit City and dreamed of returning home to the cotton fields, his mother, papa, sister and brother, and a girl who had been waiting for him. During the day he works making cars in Detroit but feels homesick. At night he goes to bars to try and forget his longing to return home. He decides to take the next southbound freight train back to the people he left waiting for him.

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    New Songs For 031613

    Uploaded by

    Chris Murphy
    The song is about a man who had gone to sleep in Detroit City and dreamed of returning home to the cotton fields, his mother, papa, sister and brother, and a girl who had been waiting for him. During the day he works making cars in Detroit but feels homesick. At night he goes to bars to try and forget his longing to return home. He decides to take the next southbound freight train back to the people he left waiting for him.

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    Detroit City

    (1966 Bobby Bare)

    Chorus:

    home to go cwant to -c7 c want c7" home


    I

    ccTF

    go

    Oh, how I want to go home

    Verse

    1:

    Last night I went to sleep in Detroit city

    cGc
    c

    Gc7CC7

    And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home


    F

    ldreamed about mv mother


    Dear old papa, sister and brother

    DD7

    And I dreamed about that girl Whose been waitin'for so long


    (Chorus)

    GGz

    Verse

    2:

    cccfolks think I'm Home


    F

    From the letters that I write they think I'm fine


    But by day I make the cars

    big in Gdz-'ccz Detroit city

    By night I make the bars

    DD7GG7

    lf only they could read between the lines

    (Chorus)

    Spoken:

    cGc
    I rode_a freight train north to Detroit citv

    cc7CC7
    F

    After all these years I've been wasting my time

    So I'll take mv foolish oride

    Get on a southbound freiqht and ride

    And go back to the

    D7 -

    ones

    G7

    I left waiting far behind

    She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain G 1. She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes D7 She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes G She'll be comin' round the mountain, C She'll be comin' round the mountain, G D7 G She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes 2. She'll be drivin six white horses when she comes D7 She'll be drivin six white horses when she comes G She'll be drivin six white horses, C She'll be drivin six white horses, G D7 G She'll be drivin six white horses when she comes

    3. Oh well all go out to meet her when she comes 4. Oh well all have chicken and dumplins when she comes

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