500 Miles Chords

500 Miles (1961)
 
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The Journeymen:
Scott McKenzie
John Phillips
Dick Weissman
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The song is right here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cgQJzJsM5U
 
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The song is originally played on the guitar and the banjo. Here's how I play the
song on the guitar.
It sounds better with two guitars, so find a friend who plays the guitar as well.
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Standard Tuning, Capo 3 fret
 
 
Intro - the easiest way to play the intro is this:
 
         G           Em         Am          C          Am          D           G  (keep playing G)
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------0---0-------0--------------0----------------------0-------------------------------|
G|----0--------2--0-------2--0--2-----2--0----------0--2-----2--0-----------0--0-----------|
D|-0----------------------------------------2----2-----------------2---0-2-----------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 
       G                  Em
If you miss the train I'm on,
         Am             C
You will know that I am gone,
        Am               D              G
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.
          G                Em
A hundred miles, a hundred miles,
          Am               C
A hundred miles, a hundred miles,
        Am               D              G
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.
 
          G              Em
Lord, I'm one, Lord, I'm two,
          Am               C
Lord, I'm three, Lord, I'm four,
          Am           D                G
Lord, I'm five hundred miles a way from home.
          G               Em
Away from home, away from home,
          Am              C
Away from home, away from home,
          Am           D               G
Lord, I'm five hundred miles away from home.
 
      G           Em
Not a shirt on my back,
      Am          C
Not a penny to my name.
        Am            D           G
Lord, I can't go back home this-a way.
       G           Em
This-a way, this-a way,
       Am          C
This-a way, this-a way,
        Am            D           G
Lord, I can't go back home this-a way.
 
 
For the solo you can play the intro part, or better yet,
improvise in the same key the way you feel it ;)
 
G  Em  Am  C  Am  D  G
 
       G                  Em
If you miss the train I'm on,
         Am             C
You will know that I am gone,
        Am               D              G
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.
          G                Em
A hundred miles, a hundred miles,
          Am               C
A hundred miles, a hundred miles,
        Am               D              G
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.
        Am               D              G
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.
 
 
 
27.08.2013, tabbed by RaphaeL-
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