C                                    Am              F        
If you miss the train I'm on , you will know that I am gone, 
              G7                                                C 
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles. 
                   C                        Am 
A hundred miles, a hundred miles, 
                  F        
A hundred miles, a hundred miles, 
              G7                                                 C 
You can hear the whistle blow, a hundred miles. 
 
C                                  Am                F               
Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two, Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four 
              G7                                          C 
Lord I'm five hundred mile away from home. 
                  C                          Am 
Away from home, away from home, 
                  F 
Away from home, away from home, 
                G7                                          C 
Lord, I'm five hundred miles away from home. 
 
C                          Am             F 
Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name, 
            G7                                     C 
Lord I can't go back home, this a way, 
             C             Am              F 
This a way, this a way, this a way, this a way, 
            G7                                    C 
Lord, I can't go back home this a way. 
            G7                                    C 
Lord, I can't go back home this a way. 
     (Slow down on this closing line)