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.