[Intro]
[Verse]
G                         Em 
If you miss the train I'm on, 
         Am             Am7 
You will know that I am gone 
        Am               D7 
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.
[Verse]
G                          Em               Am              Am7 
A hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles a hundred miles- 
        Am               D7              G 
You can hear the whistle blow, a hundred miles. 
G                      Em            Am              Am7           Am 
Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two, Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four, Lord I'm five  
        D7              G 
hundred miles away from home.
[Verse]
  
Away from home, away from home, away from home, away from home, Lord I'm 
  
five hundred miles away from home.
[Verse]
G                 Em          Am          Am7          Am           D7 
Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name, Lord I an't go back home  
      G 
this a way- 
  
[2nd Guitar] 
  
This a-way this a-way, this a- way, this a-way. 
  
Lord I an't go back home this a way-
[Verse]
G                         Em 
If you miss the train I'm on, 
         Am             Am7 
You will know that I am gone- 
        Am             D7               G 
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.