50+ Music<p>"500 Miles" (also known as "500 Miles Away from Home" or "Railroaders' Lament") is a song made popular in the United States and Europe during the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/1960sFolkRevival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1960sFolkRevival</span></a>. The simple <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/repetitive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>repetitive</span></a> lyrics offer a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lament" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lament</span></a> by a traveler who is far from home, out of money and too ashamed to return. In a May 1963 interview on Folk Music Worldwide, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PaulStookey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulStookey</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PeterPaulAndMary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterPaulAndMary</span></a> characterized the song, which appeared on the group's 1962 debut album, as "a reflection of loneliness. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLGEyi1Yr8s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=iLGEyi1Yr8s</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>