If you miss the train I'm on, you'll know I have 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, Good God, I'm five hundred miles from my home. Five hundred miles, five hundred miles, five hundred miles, five hundred miles. I'm five hundred miles from my home. Not a shirt on my back, I ain't got a penny to my name. Lord, I can't go home this way, oh this way, this way, this way, this way. Lord, don't make me go home this way. So if you miss the train I'm on, you'll know that I have gone. You will hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.