The promised land (video) (midi)

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1. I left my home in Norfolk, Virginia, California on my mind,

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I straddled that Greyhound and rode him into Raleigh

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and on across Caroline.

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We stopped in Charlotte, we bypassed Rockhill,

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we never was a minute late,

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and we was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown,

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rollin' out of Georgia State.

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We had more trouble that turned into a struggle

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halfway across Alabam',

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and that 'Hound broke down and left us all stranded

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in downtown Birmingham. + C - F - G - C

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2. Right away I bought me a through train ticket,

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ridin' 'cross Mississippi clean,

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and I was on that Midnight Flyer out of Birmingham,

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smokin' into New Orleans.

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Somebody help me get out of Lou'siana,

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just help me get to Houston town !

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There are a people there who care a little 'bout me.

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and they won't let the poor boy down.

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Sure as you're born they bought me a silk suit,

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put luggage in my hand,

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and I woke up high over Albuquerque

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on a jet to the Promised Land. + C - F - G - C

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3. A workin' on a T-bone steak a la carte,

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flyin' over to the Golden State,

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a when the pilot told us in thirteen minutes

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he would set us at the terminal gate.

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Swing low, chariot, come down easy, taxi to the terminal zone,

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cut your engines and cool your wings,

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and let me make it to the telephone.

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Los Angeles, give me Norfolk, Virginia, Tidewater four-ten-o-nine !

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Tell the folks back home this is the Promised Land callin'

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and the poor boy's on the line !

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(Chuck Berry)