1. If you miss the train I'm on, you will know that I am gone,

2. Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two, Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four,

3. Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name,

1. you can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.

2. Lord I'm 500 miles from my home.

3. Lord, I can't go a-home this a-way.

1. A hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles,

2. 500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles,

3. This a-way, this a-way, this a-way, this a-way,

1. you can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.

2. Lord, I'm five hundred miles from my home.

3. Lord I can't go a-home this a-way.