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I'm five hundred miles away from home

Teardrops fell on mama's note when I read the things she wrote

 She said we miss you son we love you come on home

 Well I didn't have to pack I had it all right on my back

 Now I'm five hundred miles away from home

 Away from home away from home cold and tired and all alone

 Yes I'm five hundred miles away from home

I know this is the same road I took the day I left home

But it sure looks different now

Well I guess I look different too cause time changes everything

I wonder what they'll say when they see their boy looking this way

 Oh I wonder what they'll say when I get home

 Can't remember when I ate it's just thumb and walk and wait

 And I'm still five hundred miles away from home

 If my luck had been just right I'd be with them all tonight

 But I'm still five hundred miles away from home

 Away from home away from home cold and tired and all alone

 Yes I'm five hundred miles away from home