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May 9, 2013

I'M NINE HUNDRED MILES AWAY FROM HOME - 3/1 : Peter, Paul & Mary


 
 
 
"500 MILES" 
改編自1924年的原創作品 "I'm Nine Hundred Miles Away from Home", 或稱 "Railroaders' Lament 鐵路工人的哀歌"。


包括很多不同名字的版本, 最為樂迷認識的 "500 MILES", 是女歌手 Hedy West (1938-2005) 1961年撰詞的版本, 她聲稱此曲是自幼耳聞於袓母, 經重新編曲和撰詞, 由 Atzal Music, Inc. 首得版權, 並由樂隊 "The Journeymen" 正式錄音發行面世, 1962年二月再被 "Kingston Trio" 在一次大學演唱會的 Live Album 收錄, 同年五月再由 "Peter, Paul & Mary" 一唱而紅, 令更熾熱成家喻戶曉的民歌之一。1963年, 美國民歌手 "Bobby Bare" 的版本 "500 Miles Away From Home" 加上獨白, 亦被樂迷歡迎, 一別, 一回, 各有感人神傷之處。之後有不同語言的演繹, 曲調多數是取自 Hedy West 的版本。



 500 MILES - HEDY WEST - 1961 VERSION
 If you miss the train I'm on,
You will know that I am gone.
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.
A hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles,
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.

Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two, Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four,
Lord I'm five hundred miles away from home.
Away from home, away from home, away from home, away from home,
Lord I'm five hundred miles away from home.

Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name,
Lord I can't go back home this a way.
This a way, this a way, this a way, this a way,
Lord I can't go back home this a way.

If you miss the train I'm on, you will know that I am gone.
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.
A hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles,
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.



BOBBY BARE - 1963
500 MILES AWAY FROM HOME - BOBBY BARE
I'm 500 miles away from home
Teardrops fell on momma'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

I know this is the same road I took the day I left home,
But it sure looks different now.
And I guess I look different too, cause time changes everything.
I wonder what they'll say, when they see their boy looking this bad.


Oh I wonder what they'll say when I get 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 500 miles away from home
Away from home away from home
Oh I'm still 500 miles away from home

ORIGINAL 
"I'm Nine Hundred Miles Away From Home" (Traditional) - 1924 Fiddlin' John Carson


CZECH

900 mil - Miroslav Řihošek 1969
500 mil - Antonín Hájek, Jan Vančura 1971
Tisíc mil - Ivo Fischer 1967

DANISH 
Så længe du elsker er du ung - Gustav Winckler 1968

DUTCH
In de nacht verdwijnt een trein - Ray Franky 1962
Eindelijk alleen - Benny Neyman 1979
Ik hoor nog steeds dat lied... - Jan De Vuyst 2002      
 
ENGLISH
Train 45 - Grayson and Whitter 1928
500 Miles - Hedy West 1961
500 Miles Away from Home - Bobby Bare, Charlie Williams 1963
500 Miles the Wrong Way - Don Bowman 1964
He's Comin' Home - Mary Taylor 1964

FINNISH
Juna jättää laiturin - Reino Helismaa 1963
Viimeinen vihellys - Juha Vainio 1964
Pitkät illat - Sauvo Puhtila 1964
Lapsuuden usko - Matti Nyberg 1973
Liian kaukana - Raul Reiman 1979

FRENCH
J'entends siffler le train - Jacques Plante French 1962

GERMAN
500 Meilen von zu Haus - Gunter Gabriel 1979
Und dein Zug fährt durch die Nacht - Ernst Bader 1962
5000 Meilen von zu Haus' - Günter Loose 1965
500 Meilen - Lukas Hainer 2012

GREEK
τραίνα - Λιζέττα Νικολάου 1982

ICELANDIC
Svo óralangt frá þér - Ómar Ragnarsson 1966 
     
ITALIAN
E il treno va - Daniele Pace, Gian Carlo Testoni 1963 
Tu che ne sai - Schola Cantorum 1979

LITHUANIAN
Traukinys - Virgis Stakėnas 1997
     
PORTUGUESE
Lá Muito Além - Maria Julia 1967

SLOVENIAN
Poslednji vlak - Lado Leskovar 1972

SPANISH
Quinientas millas - Augusto Algueró Sr. 1962
Det är långsamt att leva utan dej - Stig Anderson 1963

SWEDISH
Det är långsamt att leva utan dej - Stig Anderson 1963
Så länge du älskar är du ung - Stig Anderson 1968
Bara gå - Allan Forss 1962