[00:04.04]I left my home in
[00:04.98]Norfolk Virginia
[00:06.26]California on my mind
[00:09.27]Straddled that greyhound, rode him past
[00:11.65]RaleighOn across
[00:12.94]CarolineStopped in
[00:15.56]Charlotte and bypassed rock hill
[00:17.71]And we never was a minute late
[00:20.23]We was ninety miles out of
[00:21.81]Atlanta by sundown
[00:23.23]Rollin' 'cross the
[00:24.72]Georgia state
[00:26.24]We had motor trouble it turned into a struggle
[00:28.82]Half way 'cross
[00:29.74]AlabamaAnd that 'hound broke down and left us all stranded
[00:34.44]In downtown
[00:35.01]Birmingham
[00:37.66]Straight off,
[00:49.31]I bought me a through train ticket
[00:51.66]Ridin' 'cross
[00:52.45]Mississippi clean
[00:54.27]And I was on that midnight flier out of
[00:56.86]Birmingham
[00:57.44]Smoking into
[00:58.17]New Orleans
[01:00.36]Somebody help me get out of
[01:02.22]LouisianaJust help me get to
[01:03.93]Houston Town
[01:05.90]There's people there who care a little 'bout me
[01:08.72]And they won't let the poor boy down
[01:11.92]Sure as you're born, they bought me a silk suit
[01:14.78]Put luggage in my hands
[01:17.27]And I woke up high over
[01:19.67]Albuquerque
[01:20.39]On a jet to the promised land
[01:35.25]Workin' on a
[01:35.76]T-bone steak a la carte
[01:37.50]Flying over to the golden state
[01:40.45]Oh, when the pilot told me us in thirteen minutes
[01:43.64]He was headin' at the terminal gate
[01:46.95]Swing low sweet chariot, come down easy
[01:49.51]Taxi to the terminal zone
[01:52.46]Cut your engines and cool your wings
[01:55.02]And let me make it to the telephone
[01:58.47]Los Angeles give me
[01:59.74]Norfolk Virginia
[02:00.99]Tidewater four ten o nine
[02:04.03]Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin'
[02:06.45]And the poor boy's on the line
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