When I read the things she wrote
She said, we miss you girl, 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

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Away from home, away from home
Cold and tired and all alone
Yes, I'm five hundred miles away from home

It's hard to tell the state I'm in
Where I'm going, where I've been
But there's a dream I've been following so long
If mama knew the things I've done
She'd forgive them everyone
But i'm still five hundred miles away from home

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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

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(Bobby Bare, Charlie Williams, Hedy West)
Copyright 1963 renewed 1991 Beechwood Music Corporation