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...

@solveigskovdal8648

4 жыл бұрын

Skøn gammel sang af. Bobby bare

@mprimrose4039

3 жыл бұрын

@@solveigskovdal8648 thank you for the words.

@janetbrowntlc

3 жыл бұрын

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

@janetbrowntlc

2 жыл бұрын

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

@dorasyiem4010

2 жыл бұрын

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. 🥰🇮🇳

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.

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

@royfranks9485

2 жыл бұрын

I still listen and like bobby bare

@ronaldlsullivan588

2 жыл бұрын

Iam love this guy

@william.patrickmahonev6922

2 жыл бұрын

I am long live Bobby, you are one of the best. thanks.

@deborahvelez102

2 жыл бұрын

ME!!! He was before mine time but i came to love him and many others too.

@teikpengooi5571

2 жыл бұрын

Lol, welcome to the club.

THAT was music!

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 .

@geleterojodelgado8476

2 ай бұрын

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.

For us oldsters, anyone who loves the guitar and superb lyrics, this song is one of the most memorable. It is timeless.

@joeflanagan1603

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Mr. Flanagan, from Newcut Rd. in Louisville Ky!

@patriciajrs46

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it is.

@sandburgmartin7947

Жыл бұрын

Mr.John, great comment coming from you & your state of Chet Atkins, Bill Monroe, Ricky Scaggs, and many others.

@seniortide

Жыл бұрын

well said. at 77 i wish the ones we grew up with were still with us

wonderfuul

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.😢

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.

@bubbalong7646

3 жыл бұрын

Semper Fi! Lima 4/11, Hill 55, March 68-July 69.

@soisaidtogod4248

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you made it back.

@user-mq9co4tl1w

3 жыл бұрын

From Canada...Thank You for your service! God Bless you Sir!

@classickruzer1

3 жыл бұрын

We always played We gotta get out of this place -- The Animals ..

@katrinasolien7553

3 жыл бұрын

Wishing you the very best in your life.

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

Bobby Bare is one of the best singers ive ever heard. He is still alive. Still do ing shows.

@dorasyiem4010

2 жыл бұрын

May GOD bless him with good health. 🙏💓

Der beste Country Song ever

Country was so good back in the day.

@747-pilot

3 жыл бұрын

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!

@747-pilot

3 жыл бұрын

@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.

@williametheridge1764

3 жыл бұрын

alltimes good.

@cassidypresley3271

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@cassidypresley3271

3 жыл бұрын

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.

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

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

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.

@FrankA-iv8jr

11 ай бұрын

🎉,

I was born in Detroit in 57, baby!

The great Bobby when country music was worth listening to.

@myralail7563

3 жыл бұрын

Amen!

@myralail7563

3 жыл бұрын

@Bobby Bare North Carolina 👍😊

@williamkrejca4641

2 жыл бұрын

A truly classic country song, much appreciated!!!

@georgecoons7000

Жыл бұрын

@PINNED ♟by Parker McCollum🔹 hi

@georgecoons7000

Жыл бұрын

@Brantley Gilbert 🔹 hi

There are many country singers who are just as good as Bobby, but there is no one better.

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 ❤

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

so handsome bobby bare...and a great singer!!!...

@eml122

3 жыл бұрын

@Bobby Bare did you see me there???....lol...

@eml122

3 жыл бұрын

@Bobby Bare haha...only a scammer would say that...

I think Ol’ Bobby Bare was so underrated his whole career. 🥴

@dariusdribbles.3981

3 жыл бұрын

He had the misfortune of playing in Dylan's time.

@CountryDoublePlay

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, I've always liked him and I think he's a much better singer than some that were more famous than him.

@edwardhohman7013

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you he was underrated

@jtmarshall

3 жыл бұрын

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..

At Camp Darby Italy we did a line danceto this. It was 1967 at the Officers Club..as liquor flowed so did the tears! RIP Col McKeeer, Ray Mistoli, Gen Homer Smith

Bobby always had a serious sadness in his eyes. Nobody ever sang this song like him and the recitation is so believable.

@64fairlane305

7 жыл бұрын

true, he was a big-hearted superstar back then

@roxannejuan6123

6 жыл бұрын

64fairlane359

@jamesraines7069

6 жыл бұрын

russell this johnson 8 .orgthe

@KeizerHedorah

3 жыл бұрын

Not in 1980 he didn't LOL

@michaeldavidson1146

3 жыл бұрын

Just a poor boy with a 12 string...what a joke...doesn't know what poor is.

Always loved this song. Simple music yet so heartfelt.

2024 still love Bobby Bare. Love his version of Four Strong Winds....the best ever. 3:23 3:23

My friend Kid rock is from DETROIT. I lived there when my dad was in barber school there. I was 4 and 1/2 yrs old. Very little girl. Will never ever forget it..

My teenage favorite country collections!

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 ..

@jamesnagelmueller6852

4 жыл бұрын

He is the best

@ralphgriffith7799

2 жыл бұрын

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..

@nickmcafee3523

Жыл бұрын

If you're in his range, people will go nuts when you sing it. It's good and they've never heard it.

@frankwilliams5041

Жыл бұрын

​@@jamesnagelmueller6852 gt be btw😮 no no no l0ppprppp ft

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.

Such a good song

@joefronti6901

3 жыл бұрын

A great song

"I wanna go home". One of the greatest refrains in country music.

Always loved Bobby Bare.

@JacobWilson486

Жыл бұрын

How are you doing today

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!

@dallaswoody2923

7 жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry my died in 09

@sojnab1

6 жыл бұрын

God bless you and your Mother

@lynnb.6722

6 жыл бұрын

God Bless YOU and may you keep Mom's memory always in your heart!

@rickymyers9219

6 жыл бұрын

alcutter1 w less

@rickyclark5904

6 жыл бұрын

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

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.

Such a incredible "LIVE" performance... After 60 YEARS, still such a beautiful song 💖

It doesn't come better

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.

@PortlandPandemonium-yu9rr

9 күн бұрын

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....."

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

@JohnAdai

10 ай бұрын

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

What a memory!

Bobby Bare aka Bill Parsons, one of the best country voices ever.

@sandburgmartin7947

Жыл бұрын

And both are family surnames of many good folks in the Western NC mountains. Bobby has roots there.

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.

Absolutely a fantastic song wow I love this song and I even sing it today

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.

@murphycormac3089

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Tammy 👋

Great lyrics, great vocals, great sound, great song. The longing for the homeland could not be better expressed. Greetings from Turkey.

Bobby love to hear him sing really good voice and I love this song

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!!

now this is music and class ....

The simple guitar solos are so moving.

Bobby Bare: One of the all time greats !

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.

Decent music from a decent singer Bobby Bare...🎈🎈🎈👏🏿

I agree, nice voice.

He's Brilliant, never get tired listening to him.

This old Michigeezer Loves this song, especially this version.

Heard this song when I was a young child and have loved ever since. One of the great songs in country music!

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.

Awesome

Watched his interview with Ralph Emery last night. Very nice man. Came from nothin. Mother died when he was five.

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😅

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!

@carlgustav945

2 жыл бұрын

@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! ❤

Loved him for decades, I still do!

@murphycormac3089

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Linda 👋

Man! He was young and handsome in 1964!! I grew up with these great songs. Thanks Bobby for being part of that.

@patriciajrs46

Жыл бұрын

@Mark Honest Fine.

@patriciajrs46

Жыл бұрын

@Mark Honest The United States of America.

@patriciajrs46

Жыл бұрын

@Mark Honest I'm sure you meant where, auto-correct stimks. I am in Tennessee.

Very good song l love❤❤

I have always loved bobby bare I've sung him songs for many years and still love it

I am listering to Bobby Bare in 2022 love all his songs

Love this classic hit song. Song use listen on radio stations back then.still enjoy more though years.

I like it.

Always loved cars great song

I went to Kingsville TX to see him two times and once in Arkansas Pass TX and once in Rock Port Tx where I was living at the time. He was OUT OF THIS WORLD each time. He was the greatest, no other way to say it.

This is my favorite song by the great Bobby bare. Thanks for posting 🙏

Brilliant singer and it's a true story.

Wonderful music Bobby Bare one of the great singers

It always blows my mind how good these old country singers were live.

I love good old classic country music 🎶 it's the best 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

My Mom Favorite Song

I mean, if he saw Detroit now, man would be singing a different tune.

@brucebarclay1967

Жыл бұрын

sad to say Detroit went down the shi__________r,

I remember listening to this as a little kid.....

No compromises on the backup singers, great job!

This is a concert event at Oslo in 1964 where Bobby Bare accompanied Jim Reeves

U kidding me? This is everything.

Bob Dylan sent me here - he describes the sincere delivery of this song. wonderfully authentic performance

@fransbuijs808

Жыл бұрын

Same here. And I'm sure there will be many more who will find out about this song through Dylan's book.

@1.WhiteTiger

Жыл бұрын

from Bob to Bobby...not bad. I'll go through all the songs of the book now. Greetings from Germany!

@mariaklose912

Жыл бұрын

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.

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!

WOW I still can remember my good teenage days listening to Bobby Bare with tears in my eyes. God bless him

One of my many favorites country songs 💃🏽💃🏽🎤🎤🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

i love this song

He also has a wonderful voice to sing the 🎵songs he does.

BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Born in 1964 and mom played this song when I was baby this song stuck in my head. I want go home too

@jonfox5366

3 жыл бұрын

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 🙏🙏🇺🇸❤️❤️❤️

Love this song 💖💖

the 60s were the height of Bobby's performances and talent..............Willie

This was my big brothers favorite song. He told me that they would sing it when they were up at Da-nang.

@billgonzales2339

5 жыл бұрын

US Marines Da-Nang, my friend was there, pure Hell

Classic Country for sure.

I love this song

I do!!! I love his singing!some of the songs he sings 🎤are fabulous! I like this song and Four Strong Winds! That my favorite,,but I love all his songs ❣️❤️

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

Saw the show at black and white Tv,great show!