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Peter Paul and Mary, 500 Miles
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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 from my home.
500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles
Lord I'm five hundred miles from my home.

Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name
Lord I can't go a-home this a-way
This a-away, this a-way, this a-way, this a-way,
Lord I can't go a-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.

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  • To whoever has the sad & twisted ideathat these 3 wonderful people were " communists"--I'm from those years, & knew them--they were committed to peace, justice & harmony among all of us. Period. & Ohhh could they sing ! We'll not see or hear the likes of this again. Thx, You Tube. Wolfsky9

  • @Wolfsky9

    I am the one who put this up along with 66 other videos of theirs and listened to them as I was growing up and I never heard of any reports that they were Communist sympathizers. Many people then who protested against the Viet Nam war were labeled as Communists by the paranoiacs in government and so it would not surprise me if someone at some time did label them as Commies since they occasionally spoke and sang out against the war.

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  • @Greysword1

    I grew up during that era too and as I said, I know they were not communists; the thought never entered my mind.

    I had the pleasure to meet and shake hands with Paul Stookey in a small children's bookstore a couple miles from where I live where he was playing some songs to a tiny audience of only about 20 people including myself. Wonderful man !

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  • 16 ppl didnt want to walk the 500 miles

  • I liked their music but not their politics.

  • John green :-)

  • OMG, Mary was just so gorgeous, & that voice--4-Ever, & Ever. RIP, Beautiful Mary. Wolfsky9

  • They were not communist at all.. just listen to them it was the vietnam era sweetheart! That's all

  • You had to be there! They were what they were, but, lots of folks in the '60's were labled a Commie when they really weren't. Also, think about it. They could never have achieved the level of success when they did if they were subversives. Pick up a book now and then. Find out the truth for yourself.

  • @Wolfsky9 You said a mouthful, as a child the first song I fell in love with was 'Puff'. Love Peter, Paul and Mary.

  • Omg... such sweet, lulling beauty... I was born too late... :'(

  • These guys were a class act. Great stuff.

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