500 Miles Away from Home lyrics

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 still five hundred miles

Oh, I'm still five hundred away from home...