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Detroit City - Bobby Bare Chords

Chords: City, Bobby, Bare, Dill, E5, E5/F, E5/F#, E, E7, A

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Genre: country, folk, pop

Detroit City chords
Bobby Bare 1963 (Danny Dill / Mel Tillis)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_City_(song)

[Intro]
E5 E5/F E5/F# E5/F E

[Chorus]
E E7 A
I wanna go home, I wanna go home
E B7 E
Oh, how I wanna go home

[Verse 1]
E B7 E
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City
B7 E E7
And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home
A
I dreamed about my mother,
E
dear old papa, sister and brother,
F#
I dreamed about that girl,
B7
who's been waiting for so long

[Chorus]
E E7 A
I wanna go home, I wanna go home
E B7 E
Oh, how I wanna go home

[Instrumental MODULATE up to B]
E5 E5/F E5/F#

[Verse 2]
B F# B
Home folks think I'm big in Detroit City
F# B B7
From the letters that I write they think I'm fine
E
But by day I make the cars,
B
by night I make the bars
C# F#
If only they could read between the lines

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