five hundred miles

If you miss the train I'm on, you will know that I am gone 

You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles, 

A hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, 

You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles. 



Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two, Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four, 

Lord I'm 500 miles away from home. 

Away from home, away from home, away from home, away from home

Lord I'm five hundred miles away from home. 



Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name 

Lord I can't go back home this a-way 

This a-away, this a-way, this a-way, this a-way, 

Lord I can't go back home this a-way. 



If you miss the train I'm on, you will know that I am gone 

You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles, 

A hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, 

You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles,

You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles,

You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.