| If you miss the train I’m on, you will know that I am gone, you
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| Can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
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| A hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred
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| Miles, you can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
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| Lord, I’m one, Lord, I’m two, Lord, I’m three, Lord, I’m four
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| Lord, I’m five hundred miles a way from home
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| Away from home, away from home, away from home, away from home
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| Lord, I’m five hundred miles away from home
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| Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name. |
| Lord, I can’t go
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| Back home this-a way
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| This-a way, this-a way, this-a way, this-a way, Lord, I can’t go
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| Back home this-a way. |
| (Interlude, repeat first verse)
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| You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles |