Five Hundred Miles - Bobby Bare

I’m 500 miles away from home

Teardrops fell on momma’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 500 miles away from home

Away from home away from home

Cold and tired and all alone

Yes, I’m 500 miles away from home

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

but it sure looks different now.

And I guess I look

different too, cause time changes everything.

I wonder what

they’ll say, when they see their boy looking this bad.

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 500 miles away from home

If my luck had been just right

I’d be with them all tonight

But I’m 500 miles away from home

Away from home away from home

Oh I’m still 500 miles away from home