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. (Interlude, repeat first verse)

You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.