Lyrics: Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City I dreamed about them cotton fields of home I dreamed about my mother, dear old pappy, sister and brother And I dreamed about the girl who's been waitin' for so long I want to go home I want to go home Oh, how I want to go home Home folks think I'm big in Detroit City From the letters that I write they think I'm just fine, yes they do But by day I make the cars and by night I make the bars If only they could read between the lines ‘cause you know I rode a freight train north to Detroit City And after all these years I find I've just been wastin' my time You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna take my foolish pride Get it on a southbound freight and let it ride I'm gonna go back to the loved ones The ones I left waiting so far behind I want to go home, yeah I want to go home Oh, how I want to go home (Can't you hear me?) I want to go home Whoa, baby I want to go home Oh, how I want to go home (Somebody help me) I want to go home, yeah I want to go home, whoa oh Oh, how I want to go home Hmm, I want to go home...
Ya know, I could sing this and Five Hundred Miles backwards. Every yr on my daddy's birthday I go to the cemetary about a block from.my Apt. and I listen to this with my daddy. Some might think it's morbid of me but I've been doing it since he passed in 2006 and I'll do it until I join him , mama and brother in Heaven
Same here, though I lived very far from you (Spain), but humans are all the same after all. We used to listen to song like this on the cassettes: Lynn Anderson, Kitty Wells and many otthers. I try to do the same thing with my kids now.
Da Nang 1969 Everywhere you went inside our Marine camp you'd here this song playing and man did it make you yearn for the home that you couldn't wait to leave and then the rockets would hit all around us and for a second you were back in VietNam. I made it out, I was medevacked out in April of 70 to Japan. Home is where I'm still living at 70 years old I'm still in Cincy and gawd I still listen to this song.
@TheJanka51 I would say that it was still pretty good into the 90s, after which it became unrecognizable garbage! But yes, the late 60s, 70s and early 80s were the BEST years of country music. Merle Haggard, Glen Campbell, Billie Jo Spears, ....and I could go on and on and on.
Better then today's wacky country music......music with no meaning to it and no style. The real country music....is 50s, 60s and 70s. Of my generation.
Absolutely.....right on that!! Today's country music...sucks!! No meaning or rhythm to it, like when I was growing up in the 60s, 70s and 80s.....when music was music. The great 3 decades of good solid classic music.
Definitely underrated... His songs are amazing and he's a great story teller.. His cover of " how I got to Memphis " is good, although I like the original version by Tom t hall the best..
Some of us old boomer kids trying to learn to play this on guitar used to like to wind that big E 6th string down two frets & try to sound like the "record".
alcutter1 so sorry to hear about you mom my mom died in 2010 but I'm glad your mom liked this song the record company stole this song from my uncle Burt
Still listing to Bobby Bare 2022 this voice and this song will never grow old love ❤ it still play it after 50 some years love it thanks Bobby Bare for you great n Music ❤
A friend & I were seniors when a married couple took us to the Louisiana Hayride. I told my friend to follow me…and we went in the dressing room he & Lefty shared..we asked for their autograph when this was popular. How I wish I had kept that!
This song is 52 years old..still the quality and the singing style in very good condition..i was born in 1965..this song is one of my favorite songs ..
I live just north of Detroit but am from the south and the pandemic brought me to Detroit for work. I wish so bad I could be closer to home. I miss my momma and daddy and sister.
@Bobby Bare I loved your version of Come Sundown, so much emotion put into it. You have inspired me from the way you crooned. I may have finally found my groove, thank you! ❤
I lived in Kuwait for a decade and would play this song often, I would think of Kuwait City in the lyrics instead of Detroit City, lol. I WANT TO GO HOME!
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Hard to believe that it was 1964. I still whistle this song every now and then. Bobby Bare was very laid back and easy to listen to. There is a part early in this video where he appears to be having trouble with the key up and the accompanist beside him shows him his guitar. Bobby gave a shy grin and mouthed "thank you." Then continued playing in the next higher key.
NO, NO, NO! That transition from E to the key of B for the second verse and refrain is HIS!!! He did not need help finding it, he owns it! This is certainly probably the best version, but listen to Solomon Burke do it for the true feel of a man from the south who went north and ended up by "day making the cars and by night making the bars....."
When I was a kid we all had to spend the summer with Dad at whatever fish camp he was staying in. The very last time we ever had to do that, this song came on our radio. Mom, my brother, sister, and me, sang this song so much Dad finally got fed up and sent us home. " I want to go home" 😀 This is a very special song.
I listen to bobby regularily. We are kin folk. His maternal grandma and grandpa smith are my great grandparents. My moms his 1st cousin. Love all of bobbys stuff.
I've been listening to Bobby Bare singing this song for years and I will neer get tired of doing so - simply love this song (and Bobby Bare's rendition) !
I am, my dad played and sang these old songs when I was a kid. My mother was part of the Carter family. We’d have little Jimmy dickens and so many more on some weekends and my mother loved it. She passed away at 42 years old. We grew up in Hilton’s Virginia. I’m 54 and will never forget those days and songs.
I was sent by Bob Dylan too. Strange song and great bass line. The singer seems to be some kind of " happy sad." . Wonderful vision of what can´t work.
The song will always be special to me because the. First time I left home the song had a greater. Meaning to me, I can really feel the words he was saying the song have a greater meaning now😅
Hats off to the ANITA KERR SINGERS, who did a FANTASTIC job on the back-up on Bobby's Performance here!! They did SO MUCH in back-ups for Country Music, for SO MANY of the GREAT "AUTHENTIC" Country Classics!!
What memories! Grew up listening to Bobby and his partners in music in the 60's. Songs such as this one, Streets Of Baltimore, 500 miles and so forth. "It's Alright" being my favorite. Bless you brother for all the great music you've given us. I have family Bobby that knew you back in Springfield, Ohio long ago. Where would country had been without the likes of yourself, Marty, Ray and the others. Seen you in Palmetto years back at the Civic Center. Just as great as I recalled from my younger times. Great entertainer my friend! Bless you.
This song was my gramps favorite song he would sing it in the grain truck during harvest he has passed on since 98 but it's one of my favorite memories of him and because of him I absolutely love Bobby Bare
I miss my daughter Melissa up in Providence Rhode Island and I want to go back home to see her I miss her so much I'm down here in Jacksonville Florida been there 27 years I'm ready to go back home
Bobby Bare No I was living in England from 1967 to 1975. I’m 56 my mom brought all her 45s with us overseas. Detroit City was special song for us I would cry to come home to the USA. The song brings back so many memories. Thank you Bobby Bare. I like that 12 sting God bless you 🙏🙏🇺🇸❤️❤️❤️
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Lyrics:
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City
I dreamed about them cotton fields of home
I dreamed about my mother, dear old pappy, sister and brother
And I dreamed about the girl who's been waitin' for so long
I want to go home
I want to go home
Oh, how I want to go home
Home folks think I'm big in Detroit City
From the letters that I write they think I'm just fine, yes they do
But by day I make the cars and by night I make the bars
If only they could read between the lines
‘cause you know I rode a freight train north to Detroit City
And after all these years I find I've just been wastin' my time
You know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna take my foolish pride
Get it on a southbound freight and let it ride
I'm gonna go back to the loved ones
The ones I left waiting so far behind
I want to go home, yeah
I want to go home
Oh, how I want to go home (Can't you hear me?)
I want to go home
Whoa, baby I want to go home
Oh, how I want to go home (Somebody help me)
I want to go home, yeah
I want to go home, whoa oh
Oh, how I want to go home
Hmm, I want to go home...
Skøn gammel sang af. Bobby bare
@@solveigskovdal8648 thank you for the words.
Thanks for posting the words. I already knew every word, been singing it since I was a little girl. I sang along every word. Oh how I wanna go home
Ya know, I could sing this and Five Hundred Miles backwards. Every yr on my daddy's birthday I go to the cemetary about a block from.my Apt. and I listen to this with my daddy. Some might think it's morbid of me but I've been doing it since he passed in 2006 and I'll do it until I join him , mama and brother in Heaven
My beloved (L) used to play this Album when we were young. What a beautiful song and a great singer. Miss my Dad so much. 🥰🇮🇳
Who besides me is still listening & loving Bobby Bare in 2021? Still one of the greatest, doesn’t get the recognition he truly deserves.
I still listen and like bobby bare
Iam love this guy
I am long live Bobby, you are one of the best. thanks.
ME!!! He was before mine time but i came to love him and many others too.
Lol, welcome to the club.
It doesn't come better
From 1965 to 1968 I was in the army and listening to Bobby Bare made everything so much easier. Now it's 2023 and still love his songs.
As a kid in the 70s, my dad and I would sing along to this song and many others we had on 8 track cassette. Damn,i miss those days .
Same here, though I lived very far from you (Spain), but humans are all the same after all.
We used to listen to song like this on the cassettes: Lynn Anderson, Kitty Wells and many otthers. I try to do the same thing with my kids now.
Da Nang 1969 Everywhere you went inside our Marine camp you'd here this song playing and man did it make you yearn for the home that you couldn't wait to leave and then the rockets would hit all around us and for a second you were back in VietNam. I made it out, I was medevacked out in April of 70 to Japan. Home is where I'm still living at 70 years old I'm still in Cincy and gawd I still listen to this song.
Semper Fi! Lima 4/11, Hill 55, March 68-July 69.
Glad you made it back.
From Canada...Thank You for your service! God Bless you Sir!
We always played We gotta get out of this place -- The Animals ..
Wishing you the very best in your life.
For us oldsters, anyone who loves the guitar and superb lyrics, this song is one of the most memorable. It is timeless.
Hey Mr. Flanagan, from Newcut Rd. in Louisville Ky!
Yes, it is.
Mr.John, great comment coming from you & your state of Chet Atkins, Bill Monroe, Ricky Scaggs, and many others.
well said. at 77 i wish the ones we grew up with were still with us
I grew up listening to this with my parents who are no longer here.This reminds me of the happy times with them ,miss them so much.😢
The great Bobby when country music was worth listening to.
Amen!
@Bobby Bare North Carolina 👍😊
A truly classic country song, much appreciated!!!
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@Brantley Gilbert 🔹 hi
Bobby Bare is one of the best singers ive ever heard. He is still alive. Still do ing shows.
May GOD bless him with good health. 🙏💓
Country was so good back in the day.
Oh yes, it was!! The first version of this song I heard as a small kid back in the early 80s was by Dean Martin!
@TheJanka51 I would say that it was still pretty good into the 90s, after which it became unrecognizable garbage! But yes, the late 60s, 70s and early 80s were the BEST years of country music. Merle Haggard, Glen Campbell, Billie Jo Spears, ....and I could go on and on and on.
alltimes good.
Better then today's wacky country music......music with no meaning to it and no style. The real country music....is 50s, 60s and 70s. Of my generation.
Absolutely.....right on that!! Today's country music...sucks!! No meaning or rhythm to it, like when I was growing up in the 60s, 70s and 80s.....when music was music. The great 3 decades of good solid classic music.
I think Ol’ Bobby Bare was so underrated his whole career. 🥴
He had the misfortune of playing in Dylan's time.
I agree, I've always liked him and I think he's a much better singer than some that were more famous than him.
I agree with you he was underrated
Definitely underrated...
His songs are amazing and he's a great story teller..
His cover of " how I got to Memphis " is good, although I like the original version by Tom t hall the best..
Amazing he's still around. Bobby Bare, glad you are still here with us. One of the few still left.
Im in Detroit right now and I want to go home.
Always loved Bobby Bare.
How are you doing today
Some of us old boomer kids trying to learn to play this on guitar used to like to wind that big E 6th string down two frets & try to sound like the "record".
I LOVE THIS SONG WHEN I WAS AWAY FROM HOME I WOULD LISTEN TO THIS SONG AND CRY
As someone who was born in Alabama but grew up in metropolitan Detroit, I've always loved this song.
🎉,
There are many country singers who are just as good as Bobby, but there is no one better.
My mother passed today, I have a memory of her telling me this was her favorite song, So I hope I have it right,
this ones for us Mom!
I'm so sorry my died in 09
God bless you and your Mother
God Bless YOU and may you keep Mom's memory always in your heart!
alcutter1 w less
alcutter1 so sorry to hear about you mom my mom died in 2010 but I'm glad your mom liked this song the record company stole this song from my uncle Burt
I still miss 😢 my Dad 👨. This was his favorite song 🎵 😢.
Still listing to Bobby Bare 2022 this voice and this song will never grow old love ❤ it still play it after 50 some years love it thanks Bobby Bare for you great n
Music ❤
This old Michigeezer Loves this song, especially this version.
I mean, if he saw Detroit now, man would be singing a different tune.
sad to say Detroit went down the shi__________r,
😜😜😜
Bobby always had a serious sadness in his eyes. Nobody ever sang this song like him and the recitation is so believable.
true, he was a big-hearted superstar back then
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Not in 1980 he didn't LOL
Just a poor boy with a 12 string...what a joke...doesn't know what poor is.
This is real country music
A friend & I were seniors when a married couple took us to the Louisiana Hayride. I told my friend to follow me…and we went in the dressing room he & Lefty shared..we asked for their autograph when this was popular. How I wish I had kept that!
This song is 52 years old..still the quality and the singing style in very good condition..i was born in 1965..this song is one of my favorite songs ..
He is the best
I was born in 1930 in the mountains of SW Virginia - I recall when Bobby Bare hit the big time, best music around then and now..
If you're in his range, people will go nuts when you sing it. It's good and they've never heard it.
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Still remember sitting in our livingroom seeing this, my mom, my sis and I
I live just north of Detroit but am from the south and the pandemic brought me to Detroit for work. I wish so bad I could be closer to home. I miss my momma and daddy and sister.
"I wanna go home". One of the greatest refrains in country music.
Der beste Country Song ever
wonderfuul
I am listering to Bobby Bare in 2022 love all his songs
Always loved this song. Simple music yet so heartfelt.
Bella canzone country
I was 7 in 1967 and was singing this Magical song, i use to forget some of the words and make up my own until I learned the song. Happy memories
@@GodsVibes I was 13 and would listen to Bobby bare on the jukebox at the local dinners
MEL TILLIS THE AUTHOR OF THIS SONG IS A GREAT COUNTRY SINGER BUT THIS SONG WAS MEANT FOR BOBBY BARE ...
HE JUST NAILED IT HEART & SOUL!
@Bobby Bare I loved your version of Come Sundown, so much emotion put into it. You have inspired me from the way you crooned. I may have finally found my groove, thank you! ❤
Billy Grammer wrote this song.
My cousin Danny Dill co wrote that song with Mel Willis.
Bobby Bare: One of the all time greats !
I lived in Kuwait for a decade and would play this song often, I would think of Kuwait City in the lyrics instead of Detroit City, lol. I WANT TO GO HOME!
Country music at it's best. Still have all my parents old albums play them still. I may 70' s classic but still go back to the old country
Alan Jackson music is truly the language of the soul and heart. this musical genre is real music that touches the spirit in the real sense of the world 🌍 You're a real fan
My teenage favorite country collections!
Bobby Bare aka Bill Parsons, one of the best country voices ever.
And both are family surnames of many good folks in the Western NC mountains. Bobby has roots there.
Hard to believe that it was 1964. I still whistle this song every now and then. Bobby Bare was very laid back and easy to listen to. There is a part early in this video where he appears to be having trouble with the key up and the accompanist beside him shows him his guitar. Bobby gave a shy grin and mouthed "thank you." Then continued playing in the next higher key.
NO, NO, NO! That transition from E to the key of B for the second verse and refrain is HIS!!! He did not need help finding it, he owns it!
This is certainly probably the best version, but listen to Solomon Burke do it for the true feel of a man from the south who went north and ended up by "day making the cars and by night making the bars....."
This was a very well-know AND appreciated song for those who spent time in Viet Nam. This and "500 Miles"!
When I was a kid we all had to spend the summer with Dad at whatever fish camp he was staying in. The very last time we ever had to do that, this song came on our radio. Mom, my brother, sister, and me, sang this song so much Dad finally got fed up and sent us home. " I want to go home" 😀 This is a very special song.
so handsome bobby bare...and a great singer!!!...
@Bobby Bare did you see me there???....lol...
@Bobby Bare haha...only a scammer would say that...
I listen to bobby regularily. We are kin folk. His maternal grandma and grandpa smith are my great grandparents. My moms his 1st cousin. Love all of bobbys stuff.
I do love all old country songs I'm 69 years old grew up loving old country songs men aswell women singers
Watched his interview with Ralph Emery last night. Very nice man. Came from nothin. Mother died when he was five.
I'm a big fan as well
I've been listening to Bobby Bare singing this song for years and I will neer get tired of doing so - simply love this song (and Bobby Bare's rendition) !
that was such a popular song to us guys in Vietnam in 66-67. We counted the days to the end of our tour of duty singing I WANT TO GO HOME.
The simple guitar solos are so moving.
I am, my dad played and sang these old songs when I was a kid. My mother was part of the Carter family. We’d have little Jimmy dickens and so many more on some weekends and my mother loved it. She passed away at 42 years old. We grew up in Hilton’s Virginia. I’m 54 and will never forget those days and songs.
Hello Tammy 👋
Man! He was young and handsome in 1964!! I grew up with these great songs. Thanks Bobby for being part of that.
@Mark Honest Fine.
@Mark Honest The United States of America.
@Mark Honest I'm sure you meant where, auto-correct stimks. I am in Tennessee.
So simple...but beautiful every second. It pops into my like a happy memory. And yes...I too wanna go home.
Bobby was actually from Ohio. The same town my mother grew up in lol. Good ole Ironton Ohio
Appalachian Ohio.
Absolutely a fantastic song wow I love this song and I even sing it today
Bob Dylan sent me here - he describes the sincere delivery of this song. wonderfully authentic performance
Same here. And I'm sure there will be many more who will find out about this song through Dylan's book.
from Bob to Bobby...not bad. I'll go through all the songs of the book now. Greetings from Germany!
I was sent by Bob Dylan too. Strange song and great bass line. The singer seems to be some kind of " happy sad." . Wonderful vision of what can´t work.
The song will always be special to me because the. First time I left home the song had a greater. Meaning to me, I can really feel the words he was saying the song have a greater meaning now😅
Such a good song
A great song
I am 68 and loved Bobby Bare when I listen to what was an oldies station in Denver, Colorado
I remember we were working in Tuly Lake California when this song was new. Our town was Brownsville Texas and we used to sing this song.
Good song too he's my idol too kh
This is a concert event at Oslo in 1964 where Bobby Bare accompanied Jim Reeves
Hats off to the ANITA KERR SINGERS, who did a FANTASTIC job on the back-up on Bobby's Performance here!! They did SO MUCH in back-ups for Country Music, for SO MANY of the GREAT "AUTHENTIC" Country Classics!!
EVERYONE wants to GO HOME ... a CLASSIC!
Listened to Bobby when I was 6 years old American broadcast from Germany
This was my big brothers favorite song. He told me that they would sing it when they were up at Da-nang.
US Marines Da-Nang, my friend was there, pure Hell
Bobby love to hear him sing really good voice and I love this song
Heard this song when I was a young child and have loved ever since. One of the great songs in country music!
I recall Tom Jones having a hit with this song.
This is a difficult song to sing. A modulation to a lower register on the go is something. Bobby Bare, get down!
I can remember this song going too Tennessee at 8 years old sitting in the back seat with d. A. Walters
What a memory!
Never gave up da bear,him da best
Isa still one of em one of the greatest country singers
Brilliant singer and it's a true story.
He's Brilliant, never get tired listening to him.
Very good song l love❤❤
Awesome
What memories! Grew up listening to Bobby and his partners in music in the 60's. Songs such as this one, Streets Of Baltimore, 500 miles and so forth. "It's Alright" being my favorite. Bless you brother for all the great music you've given us. I have family Bobby that knew you back in Springfield, Ohio long ago. Where would country had been without the likes of yourself, Marty, Ray and the others. Seen you in Palmetto years back at the Civic Center. Just as great as I recalled from my younger times. Great entertainer my friend! Bless you.
I agree, nice voice.
Wonderful music Bobby Bare one of the great singers
Love this classic hit song. Song use listen on radio stations back then.still enjoy more though years.
Grew up in the 60s listening to this music
This song was my gramps favorite song he would sing it in the grain truck during harvest he has passed on since 98 but it's one of my favorite memories of him and because of him I absolutely love Bobby Bare
I love this beautiful song.
the 60s were the height of Bobby's performances and talent..............Willie
THAT was music!
this is called timeless...awesome
J'ai faillis m'endormir
Very nice singer.
It always blows my mind how good these old country singers were live.
Love this song so much. I just listened to it again today. There's nothing like country music.
Still listening in 2022 to one of the greatest
I miss my daughter Melissa up in Providence Rhode Island and I want to go back home to see her I miss her so much I'm down here in Jacksonville Florida been there 27 years I'm ready to go back home
Born in 1964 and mom played this song when I was baby this song stuck in my head. I want go home too
Bobby Bare No I was living in England from 1967 to 1975. I’m 56 my mom brought all her 45s with us overseas. Detroit City was special song for us I would cry to come home to the USA. The song brings back so many memories. Thank you Bobby Bare. I like that 12 sting God bless you 🙏🙏🇺🇸❤️❤️❤️