500 Miles - Peter, Paul & Mary (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

500 Miles (Peter, Paul & Mary, 1962). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2023-08-26. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

"500 Miles," written by Hedwig Grace "Hedy" West, was released on Peter, Paul & Mary's eponymous-titled debut album in 1962 (Whitburn, 2006). The album spent seven weeks at the no. 1 position on the Billboard 200 chart and remained on the chart for 185 weeks! (Whitburn, 2006). Bobby Bare released a version of "500 Miles," but with alternate/additional lyrics, in 1963, which rose to the no. 10 position on the Billboard Hot 100 and no. 5 on the Billboard Country charts (Whitburn, 1986, 2013). Others who recorded the song and made the Billboard Hot 100 include Heaven Bound (1972, #79) and The Hooters (1989, no. 97) (Whitburn, 2013). It has been argued that the first recorded version of the song was by the Journeymen in 1961 (secondhandsongs, 2023; wikipedia, 2023). The song has also been titled "500 Miles Away from Home" and "Railroaders' Lament" (last, 2023).

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Lyrics:

If you miss the train I'm on, you will know that I am 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
Lord, I'm 500 miles from my home

500 miles, 500 miles
500 miles, 500 miles
Lord, I'm 500 miles from my home

Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name
Lord, I can't go home, this away

This away, this away
This away, this away
Lord, I can't go home, this away

If you miss the train I'm on, you will know that I am gone
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles