Misc Traditional – 500 Miles (Guitar)

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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. (Play one word per note)
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.

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.
Away from home, away from home, away from home, away from home, Lord I'm five hundred miles away from home.
G                 Em          Am          Am7          Am            D7
Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name, Lord I can't go back home 

      G
this a-way -
This a-way this a-way, this a-way, this a-way, Lord I can't go back home this a-way.
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.
(Fade into melody)