Five Hundred Miles (hi-lo)

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+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab

FIVE HUNDRED MILES hi-lo
(Railroader’s Lament)
By: Hedy West
Key: G

4   4   5    5   -4    4  5
7   7   8    8   -8    7  8
If you miss the train I'm on, 

-4   4    -4   5  -4 4   -3”
-8   7    -8   8  -8 7   -6
you will know that I am gone,  

-3”  4   -4   5   -4   4  -3”3 3 -3”  4     4
-6   7   -8   8   -8   7  -6 6 6 -6   7     7
you can hear the whis-tle blow a hun-dred miles. 

4  4   4     5    5 -4   4     5
7  7   7     8    8 -8   7     8
A hun-dred miles, a hun-dred miles, 

5 -4   4    -4    5 -4   4    -3”
8 -8   7    -8    8 -8   7    -6
a hun-dred miles, a hun-dred miles, 

-3”  4   -4   5   -4   4  -3”3 3 -3”  4     4
-6   7   -8   8   -8   7  -6 6 6 -6   7     7
you can hear the whis-tle blow a hun-dred miles. 

Lord, I'm one. Lord I'm two, 
Lord, I'm three, Lord I'm four, 
Lord, I'm five hundred miles away from home. 
Away from home, away from home, 
away from home, away from home, 
Lord, I'm five hundred miles away from home. 

Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name,  
Lord, I can't go back home this away. 
This away, this away, this away, this away,  
Lord, I can't go back home this away. 

If you miss the train I'm on, 
you will know that I 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. 
you can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.

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