In case anyone's interested, here are the original words of Nine Hundred Miles from My Home, as recorded in October, 1928 by Fiddlin John Carson. This is the earliest version of any of this that I can find. And while Carson may have made use of some earlier unknown music or words, I have to assume he is the one to be credited with these:

[Verse 1]
Lord, I'll pawn you my watch and I'll pawn you my chain,
pawn you my gold diamond ring.
That don't pay my little woman's fine,
pawn you my wagon and my team.

[Chorus]
You can count the days I'm gone on the train that I left on.
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.
If that train runs right I'll be home tomorrow night.
Lord, I'm nine hundred miles from my home.

[Verse 2]
I used to have a woman, she would walk and talk with me.
Now she's just setting on some other rounder's knee.
She's done told him what she won't tell me,
and I hate to hear that lonesome whistle blow.

(Chorus)

[Verse 3]
I went down to the depot, Lord, not many days ago,
got on the train, and the train went a-flyin'.
I looked back behind, and my baby was a-cryin'
and "He's gone and left me alone."

-Bari