The Promised Land

Song The Promised Land
Artist Chuck Berry
Album The Music Never Stopped: Roots Of The Grateful Dead

Lyrics

[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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