five hundred miles And I'll find a way back into your arms But I've been gone for far too long to ever win your charms Hey, I'm going away from the footlights
t run cold She's got heart and soul like a pot of gold (Yeah yeah) Sees the white lines, when I'm driving blind A hundred more miles and she's right on
me? I'm your native son I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans And I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done A-dealin' cards with
big chain niggas is rude Law library scholars, potatoes over the thirty eights With bald-heads, all live wires Eleven homes, six trust funds, came home from
and the shamrock And "Libertad para Mexicana" Just fifty years after Wolftone Five thousand miles away The Yanks called us a Legion of Strangers And they can talk as they may But from
. When they were eight thousand miles away dying for her arrogance She fabricated what was a complete mockery of compassion. When they're at home, jobless
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
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
four, Lord, I'm five hundred miles a way from home. Away from home, away from home, away from home, away from home, Lord, I'm five hundred miles away from home
away Mama don't take my Kodachrome Leave your boy so far from home Mama don't take my Kodachrome away Mama don't take my Kodachrome Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
, down `round Willow bank Seen a Buick with Ohio plates. Behind the wheel was Frank Well I chased him through them county roads Till a sign said "Canadian border five miles from
I saw the stars fall from the sky And watched the tail lights fade away As the sun began to witness a new day. I drove five hundred thousand miles To
crossroads, down `round Willow bank Seen a Buick with Ohio plates. Behind the wheel was Frank Well I chased him through them county roads Till a sign said "Canadian border five miles from