Man wants to turn ’80s Proclaimers hit into marriage proposal
Liu Peiwen's girlfriend, Ling Hsueh, really loves The Proclaimers. So much so that she joked that she would only marry Liu if he took the Scottish band's 1988 hit single "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" literally and walked 1,000 miles for her.
The lyrics in the infectious pop song say:
I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more/
To be the man who walks 1,000 miles to fall down at your door
Liu, 29, did the math and found the distance from his home in the central province of Henan, China to her hometown in the southeastern province of Guangdong is exactly 1,000 miles.
So he started walking. His journey is expected to take six weeks.
"When I get there I hope she is waiting for me and I will ask her again — and I hope she says yes," the optimistic romantic told reporters.
"I would have married him anyway and was only joking when I said he had to walk 1,000 miles," Ling insists.
Listen to the song that inspired Liu's journey to a proposal:
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