Bobby Bare - 'Detroit City' ((Oslo 1964))

Album :Detroit City And Other Hits By Bobby Bare
Utgitt : 1963
Låtskrivere: Danny Dill / Mel Tillis

From Oslo, Norway April 1964. Jim Reeves and his band The Blue Boy.The Anita Kerr singers was shoir.

"Detroit City" is a song written by Danny Dill and Mel Tillis, made famous by Billy Grammer (as "I Wanna Go Home"),[1] country music singer Bobby Bare and Tom Jones. Bare's version was released in 1963. The song — sometimes known as "I Wanna Go Home" (from the opening line to the refrain) — was Bare's first Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart that summer, and became a country music standard.

Robert Joseph Bare Sr. (born April 7, 1935) is an American country music singer and songwriter, best known for the songs "Detroit City" and "500 Miles Away from Home". He is the father of Bobby Bare Jr., also a musician.
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[TheQueenOfCountry]

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...

[STEPHENHOLINKA]

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.

[johnlennon]

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 .

[ladykay]

Im in Detroit right now and I want to go home.

[kylewillett]

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.

[yvettecayer]

I still miss 😢 my Dad 👨. This was his favorite song 🎵 😢.

[Harleyrider]

Who besides me is still listening & loving Bobby Bare in 2021? Still one of the greatest, doesn’t get the recognition he truly deserves.

[marywray]

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.😢

[KeithCoffman-fwpb]

I am 68 and loved Bobby Bare when I listen to what was an oldies station in Denver, Colorado

[miketurek]

This old Michigeezer Loves this song, especially this version.

[Jim-lupw]

Amazing he's still around. Bobby Bare, glad you are still here with us. One of the few still left.

[i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b]

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!

[johncooke]

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.

[marythompson]

I LOVE THIS SONG WHEN I WAS AWAY FROM HOME I WOULD LISTEN TO THIS SONG AND CRY

[littleonetexas]

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!

[dlhartley]

I remember this Bobby Bare song from the early 60's. This is classic country! Sure do miss it.

[LanieLawson-lcke]

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😅

[liberty]

Bobby Bare was a master at weaving a story into a song.

[atty]

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.

[fairlane]

Still remember sitting in our livingroom seeing this, my mom, my sis and I