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Joan Baez voice really is one of the most beautiful voices l've ever heard! Rates her Voice #shorts 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 1960s folk revival. The simple repetitive lyrics offer a lament 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, Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary characterized the song, which appeared on the group's 1962 debut album, as "a reflection of loneliness. The song is generally credited as being written by Hedy West and a 1961 copyright is held by Atzal Music, Inc. "500 Miles" is West's "most anthologized song" The melody of "500 Miles" is very close to that of “You’ll Never Miss Your Mother Till She’s Gone", written by Harry Birch, an alias of Charles A White, and published by White, Smith, and Company of Boston, Massachusetts in 1885. Both "You'll Never Miss Your Mother Till She's Gone" and "900 Miles" were first recorded by Fiddlin' John Carson in 1923 #usa #newyork #joanbaez #singer #writer #poetry #poet #newyork #actor #funny #actress #music #uk #edit #american #russia #belgium #india #italy #uae #canada #australia #austria #southkorea #southafrica #switzerland #sweden #newzealand #brazil #belgium #bahrain #china #dailyvlog #dubai #denmark #norway #england #english #taiwan #tomhiddleston #

About Hedy West

Hedwig Grace "Hedy" West was an American folksinger, songwriter and song catcher. She belonged to the same generation of folk revivalists as Joan Baez, Judy Collins and Carolyn Hester. Her most famous song "500 Miles" is one of America's most popular folk songs. English folk musician A. L. Lloyd declared West to be "far and away the best of [the] American girl singers in the [folk] revival."

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