500 Miles Away From Home Chords

KeyF# CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays491

500 Miles Away From Home by Glen Campbell is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of F#. It uses the chords F#, D#m, G#m, G#7, C#, B, D#m7 and G#m7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
F#
Text
16
Speed
  			
Intro: F#  D#m  F#  G#m  G#7  C#  F# 

verse 1 

                          D#m                 
If you miss the train I'm on 
         B              G#m 
You will know that I am gone 
        C#                              F# 
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles 
                       D#m           G#m 
Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two, Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four 
        C#              F# 
I'm 500 miles away from home 

verse 2 

                  D#m 
Not a shirt on my back 
      D#m7        G#m 
Not a penny to my name 
       C#                 F# 
Lord I can't go back this a'way 
G#m                  C#        F# 
Lord I can't go back home this a'way 


Riff  F#  D#m  B  D#m  C#  G#m  G#m7   F# 

verse 3 

                          D#m                 
If you miss the train I'm on 
         B              G#m 
You will know that I am gone 
        C#                              F# 
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles 
                       D#m           G#m 
Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two, Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four 
        C#              F# 
I'm 500 miles away from home  
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante