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.