{"id":7105,"date":"2008-11-01T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7105"},"modified":"2013-07-03T22:54:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T02:54:34","slug":"500-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7105","title":{"rendered":"500 Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/train.jpg\"height=\"280\" width=\"520\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/500_Miles.mp3\">500 Miles<\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nHedy West (April 6, 1938 &#8211; July 3, 2005) was an American folksinger and songwriter. Her song &#8220;500 miles,&#8221; has been covered by Bobby Bare (a Billboard Top 10 hit in 1963), The Highwaymen, The Kingston Trio, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BJXFJW3AIKA\">Peter, Paul and Mary<\/a>, Peter &#038; Gordon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9wso8-vebHc&#038;feature=related\">The Brothers Four<\/a> and many others. A great number of Hedy&#8217;s songs, including the raw materials for &#8220;500 Miles&#8221; came from her paternal grandmother Lily West who passed on the songs she had learned as a child.<\/p>\n<p>This has a sweet melody and a sad story of poverty and desolation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n<p>[A] If you miss this train I&#8217;m on [F#m] then you&#8217;ll know [Bm]  that I have [D] gone<br \/>\nYou can [Bm] hear the whistle [E] blow a hundred miles<br \/>\n[A] A hundred miles [F#m] A hundred miles  [Bm] A hundred miles  [D] A hundred miles<br \/>\nYou can [Bm] hear the whistle [E] blow a hundred [A] miles<\/p>\n<p>Lord I&#8217;m one Lord I&#8217;m two Lord I&#8217;m three Lord I&#8217;m four<br \/>\nLord I&#8217;m five hundred miles from my home<br \/>\nFive hundred miles five hundred miles five hundred miles five hundred miles<br \/>\nLord I&#8217;m five hundred miles from my home<\/p>\n<p>Not a shirt on my back not a penny to my name<br \/>\nLord I can&#8217;t go on home this a-way<br \/>\nThis a-way this a-way this a-way this a-way<br \/>\nLord I can&#8217;t go on home this a-way<\/p>\n<p>[A] If you miss this train I&#8217;m on [F#m] then you&#8217;ll know [Bm]  that I have [D] gone<br \/>\nYou can [Bm] hear the whistle [E] blow a hundred miles<br \/>\n[A] A hundred miles [F#m] A hundred miles  [Bm] A hundred miles  [D] A hundred miles<br \/>\nYou can [Bm] hear the whistle [E] blow a hundred [A] miles<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: 500 Miles Hedy West (April 6, 1938 &#8211; July 3, 2005) was an American folksinger and songwriter. Her song &#8220;500 miles,&#8221; has been covered by Bobby Bare (a Billboard Top 10 hit in 1963), The Highwaymen, The Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, Peter &#038; Gordon, The Brothers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7105\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;500 Miles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,10,17,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blues","category-irishbritish","category-love","category-mountainsouthernus","category-railroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8717,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105\/revisions\/8717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}