If you miss the train I'm on,
6   6   -7   -7   -6   6  -7

you will know that I am gone.
-6    6   -6   -7 -6  6   5 

You can hear the whistle blow
5    6   -6  -7   -6 6    5

a hun - dred miles.
-4 -4     5    6 

A hun - dred miles,
6  6      6   -7  

a hun - dred miles,
-7 -6     6   -7 

a hun - dred miles,
-7 -6     6    -6

a hun - dred miles,
-7 -6     6    5

You can hear the whis - tle blow
5    6   -6  -7   -6     6   5

a hun - dred miles.
-4 -4     5    6

Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two,                  
Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four,                  
Lord I'm five hun - dred miles                  
a - way from home.                  
A - way from home,                  
a - way from home,                  
a - way from home,                  
a - way from home,                  
Lord I'm five hun - dred miles                  
a - way 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.