500 Miles

Source Recording Artist: The Seldom Scene

Album: Act 1 (1972)

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Song Details

Title: 500 Miles

Alternate Titles: Five Hundred Miles, 500 Miles Away From Home

Songwriter(s):

Hedy West

First Release: The Journeymen (1961)

Themes: Train, Rambling

Other Genres: Folk

Source Recording Details

Band/Artist:

The Seldom Scene

Album:

Key: C

Time Signature: Boom-Chuck

Tempo (BPM): 48

Track Length: 3:18

Musicians:

Lead Singer:

Other Singer:

Other Singer:

Guitar:

Mandolin:

Banjo:

Bass:

Audio/Video Recordings

500 Miles

1 6m 2m
If you miss the train I’m on you will know that I am gone
5 1
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
 

1 6m
A hundred miles a hundred miles
2m
A hundred miles a hundred miles
5 1
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
 

Got no 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

Lord I’m walking these ties with tears in my eyes
I’m trying to read a letter from my home
From my home from my home from my home from my home
Lord I’m tryin’ to read a letter from my home

If this train’s running right I’ll be home tomorrow night
Lord I’m five hundred 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

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