Peter, Paul and Mary 500 Miles

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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[CompVid101]

Now that's the real one - you can hear the difference that 2 guitars, a professional recording studio - and Mary's voice - make. Thanks Crisis for sharing this classic! As it happens, I don't have a digital version of this (only the old vinyl) and it's great to hear it again in stereo!

[Crisis1210]

@CompVid101 thanks

[rextrek]

this song will now remind me of today 3/5/2011 - the day my dad died....we played it as we waited for the coroner to arrive..and when they took his body away....in the early 70's he'd have a few beers and listen to PP and M and dance withm y little brother.......today,, I listened to this song and said goodbye to my dad.

[Narutothebestshow]

I got this song from watching a short movie on Canadian Trains. They played this song when it was showing a train drive by as well as pictures of the crews that worked and died from 1880-1920 very touching. Wish I could have lived back during 1880-1966....

[Narutothebestshow]

Those two dislikes don't know REAL music...

[johnnyrebangel]

thank you Crisis1210 for the upload.

I hadn't heard this song since the 60's, and this filled my heart with 500 nostalgic emotions.

Every morning I send a Morning Wake-Up Call to all my friends. Yesterday's wake-up call was PP&M's Early Morning Rain, with 500 Miles as an encore.... Dang, I had tears running down my cheeks after playing these two over and over. The 60's were a rough time for some of us old hippies, and Early Morning Rain describes my being stranded in Europe in 1969 to a tee.

[showyface]

A sad song but a great one. brings back such great memories

[sirprankalot1]

why does it end... beautiful song!

[nextlifearotti]

beautiful. thank you

[56bluegold]

Beautiful !

[billboardnumber1]

@rextrek sheesh that really put a ton of bricks on my shoulders. it's given me a feeling of beyond depression.

[corydee123]

this is an old civil war ballad, after the war ended many northern soldiers had no ways of returning home and were left stranded in the south.