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.