Lyrics 500 Miles / Four Strong Winds (Live) - Bobby Bare

Lord, I'm 500 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 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

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 still 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

Then I recorded a song about the four strong winds
That blow through Western Canada, in early winter
When it's hard to get a job

Four strong winds that blew along
Seven seas that run high
All these things that won't change come what may
But my good times are all gone
And I'm bound for moving on
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way

I may go out to Alberta
Weather's good there in the fall
Got some friends that I could go to workin' for
Still, I wish you'd change your mind
If I ask you one more time
But we've been through that a hundred times or more

Four strong winds that blew along
Seven seas that run high
All these things that won't change come what may
For my good times are all gone
And I'm bound for moving on
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way

Then I did a song about country love
Where you make love and then cheat and lie to her
And get caught