《500 Miles》：你离家，几公里？

今天和你们分享一首很经典的思乡曲，Hedy West的《500 Miles》。

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[ 英文参考 ] 

"500 Miles,"also known as "500 Miles Away from Home,"is a popular song in the United States and Europe during the 1960s. 

The simple repetitive lyrics offer a lament by a traveller who is far from home, but out of money.

lament: 挽歌，悲痛之情

歌词：（有不同版本）

If you miss the train I'm on
如果你错过了我坐的那班火车
You will know that I am gone
你应明白我已离开
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
你可以听见一百英里外飘来的汽笛声
A hundred miles, a hundred miles
一百英里,一百英里
A hundred miles, a hundred miles
一百英里,一百英里
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
你可以听见一百英里外飘来的汽笛声


Lord I'm one, lord I'm two
上帝啊，一百英里，两百英里
lord I'm three, lord I'm four
上帝啊，三百英里，四百英里
Lord I'm five hundred miles away from home
上帝啊，我已离家五百英里
Away from home, 　Away from home
离开家啊，离开家啊
Away from home, Away from home
离开家啊，离开家啊
Lord I'm five hundred miles away from home
上帝啊，我已离家五百英里

Not a shirt on my back
我衣衫褴褛
Not a penny to my name
我一文不名
Lord I can't go a-home this a-way
上帝啊，我不能这样回家
This a-way, this a-way
这个样,这个样
This a-way, this a-way
这个样,这个样
Lord I can't go a-home this a-way
上帝啊，我不能这样回家

If you miss the train I'm on
如果你错过了我坐的那班火车
You will know that I am gone
你应明白我已离开
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
你可以听见一百英里外飘来的汽笛声

Her great-uncle Augustus Mulkey played the fiddle, and her paternal grandmother Lillie West played the banjo.

It is adapted from I'm Nine Hundred Miles Away from Home.