If you miss the train I'm on, you will know that I am gone,
You will hear the whistle blow, a hundred miles.

A hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles,
You will 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 five hundred miles away from home.

Away from home (x4)
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-way (x4)
Lord I can't go back home this-a-way.

Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two, Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four,
Lord I'm five hundred miles away from home.

Away from home (x4)
Lord I'm five hundred miles away from home.