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Five Hundred Miles
(on "Great Songs of the Sixties, Vol. 2")

Sometimes I search for song lyrics, and find myself emersed in the history of the song; with different versions, various singers and attributes to different songwriters.

Such was the case when I researched "Five Hundred Miles (Away From Home)."

For the lyrics, simply click on the version you're looking for:

Reba McEntire:
Teardrops fell on mama's note
When I read the things she wrote...
Away from home, Away from home,
Cold and tired and all alone..."
The Proclaimers:
"When I wake up yeah I know I'm gonna be,
I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you...
But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles..."

This is the version I was looking for:

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 five hundred miles a way 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 way, 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.

"500 Miles," is credited to Hedy West, Bobby Bare, and Charlie Williams. (From Stambler and Landon, "Encyclopedia of Folk, Country and Western Music." New York: St. Martin's Press, 1969.)

This well-known ballad about a man who is painfully far away from home became a folk staple through Peter, Paul and Mary's version on their No. I debut album, Peter, Paul and Mary (1962), and country-singer Bobby Bare's crossover Top 10 hit from 1963. In 1989, "500 Miles" was returned to the charts (No. 97) by The Hooters, a Philadelphia rock quintet, in an entirely new treatment. However, quieter renditions like The Kingston Trio's are closer to the true spirit of the song.
� 1994 The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.

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Five Hundred Miles

Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, and many others.

Kingston Trio,
Peter, Paul and Mary,
and many others.