Six More Miles (To The Graveyard)

Six More Miles (To the Graveyard) is a song written by Hank Williams for MGM Records. It appeared as the B-side to "I Saw the Light" in 1948. The Residents have covered it multiple times.
== Background ==
Six More Miles was released by Hank Williams in 1948 as the B-Side to 'I Saw the Light'. The single was not a success upon release. The Residents were toddlers when the song was released, but likely heard it much later, when they grew to appreciate Williams more. 
The Residents first recorded their version as part of the Hank Williams side to their 1986 album 'Stars & Hank Forever' The first re-recording and live performance came only a year later, for The Snakey Wake Snakefinger memorial project. The '87 features a much longer intro featuring train sound effects, a staple of later reworkings.
The song was revived in 2010 for the Talking Light project, it was chosen for its association with death, as Talking Light was based on death and ghosts. The Talking Light arrangement would draw the song out much longer than it's original 4 minutes, featuring a long train-track intro, as well as longer instrumental spaces between verses. This version would be recorded for the album Lonely Teenager. A version closer to The Residents '86 arrangement would be performed at the Moravian Meeting show in 2010.
Most recently the song was performed as the encore to the In Between Dreams tour from 2017 to 2019. Following the death of Hardy Fox in 2018, the song took a sadder meaning.
== Lyrics ==
Stars & Hank, and Moravian Meeting Versions.
 Oh the rain is slowly falling
 And my heart is so sore
 Six More Miles, to leave my darling
 Never on this earth, to me no more.
 Six More Miles, To The Graveyard
 Six More Miles, Long and Sad
 Six More Miles, I'll leave my darling
 Leave the best friend, I ever had
 Oh I hear, the train-a-coming
 Bringing my darling back home
 Six More Miles, To The Graveyard
 And I'll be left, here all alone.
 Six More Miles, To The Graveyard
 Six More Miles, Long and Sad
 Six More Miles, Leave My Darling
 Leave the best friend, I ever had.
 Leave the best friend, I ever had.
1987 Version
 Oh the rain, slowly falling
 And my heart is so sore
 Six More Miles, to leave my darling
 Never on this earth, to me no more.
 Six More Miles, To The Graveyard
 Six More Miles, Long and Sad
 Six More Miles, leave my darling
 Leave the best friend, I ever had
 Oh I hear, the train-a-coming
 Bringing my darling back home
 Six More Miles, To The Graveyard
 And I'll be left, here all alone.
 Six More Miles, To The Graveyard
 Six More Miles, Long and Sad
 Six More Miles and Leave My Darling
 Leave the best friend, I ever had.
 Six More Miles, To The Graveyard
 Six More Miles, Long and Sad
 Six More Miles, Leave My Darling
 Leave the best friend, I ever had.
 Leave the best friend, I ever had.
1987 Live Version
 Oh the train is slowly falling
 And my heart is so sore
 Six More Miles, leave my darling
 Never on this earth, to see no more.
 Six More Miles, To The Graveyard
 Six More Miles, Long and Sad
 Six More Miles, leave my darling
 Leave the best friend, I ever had.
 Oh I hear, the train-a-coming
 Bringing my darling back home
 Six More Miles, To The Graveyard
 And I'll be left, here all alone.
 Six More Miles, To The Graveyard
 Six More Miles, Long and Sad
 Six More Miles, To The Graveyard
 Leave the best friend, I ever had.
 Leave the best friend, I ever had.
 Leave the best friend, I ever had.
 Leave the best friend, I ever had.
2010/2011 Versions
 Oh the rain, is slowly falling
 And my heart is so sore
 Six More Miles, and leave my darling
 Never on this earth, to see no more.
 Six More Miles, To The Graveyard
 Six More Miles, Long and Sad
 Six More Miles, To The Graveyard
 Leave the best friend, I ever had
 Oh I hear, the train-a-coming
 Bringing my darling back home
 Six More Miles, To The Graveyard
 And I'll be left, here all alone.
 Six More Miles, To The Graveyard
 Six More Miles, Long and Sad
 Six More Miles, and leave My Darling
 Leave the best friend, I ever had.
== Releases ==
* Stars & Hank Forever! (1986) 1986 Version (4:16)
* 13th Anniversary Show - Live In Japan / Stars & Hank Forever (1987) 1986 Version (4:16)
* The Snakey Wake (1988) 1987 Studio Version (5:51)
* In Memoriam Torso (1994) 1986 Version (4:16)
* Land Of Mystery (1999) 1987 Studio Version (5:51)
* Kettles Of Fish On The Outskirts Of Town (2003) 1987 Live Version Edit (2:13)
* El Año Del Muerto (2009) 1986 Version (4:16)
* Live At The Snakey Wake (2010) 1987 Live Version (5:41)
* Talking Light Live In Rehearsal, Santa Cruz, California (2010) 2010 Rehearsal Version (8:09)
* Talking Light Downloads (2010 - 2011) 2010 - 2011 Live Versions (Cira 8 Minutes)
* Lonely Teenager (2010) 2011 Studio Version (8:38)
* Talking Light Bimbo's (2011) 2011 Live Version (9:27) 
* The Snakey Wake Expanded (2015) 1987 Studio Version (5:51) 1987 Live Version (5:41)
* 80 Aching Orphans (2017) 1987 Live Version (5:41)
* Dreaming Of An Eyeball Beaming (2019) 2018 Live Version (10:41)
* Moravian Meeting (2020) 2010 Live Version (4:29)
*In Between Dreams Live In San Francisco (2020)
==== Versions ====
Category:Hank Williams
Category:Covers
Category:Stars & Hank Forever
Category:Lonely Teenager
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