Here's another classic song with talking, courtesy again of early 1960s country music!
Tonight's entry is Bobby Bare's Detroit City. This one hit #9 on the country charts back in 1963. Clearly the protagonist in this song would really like to return home somewhere south of Detroit. Further south than Windsor, Ontario, Canada. No, far south, in the continental US of A, based on the description of cotton fields early in the number.
As you know, I rode a freight train north to Detroit city
And after all these years I find I've just been wasting my time
So I just think I'll take my foolish pride
An' put it on a southbound freight and ride
Go on back to the loved ones
The ones that I left waitin' so far behind
Mr. Bare was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013, with Kenny Rogers, and is also credited with introducing Waylon Jennings to RCA records.
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