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