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The Promised Land
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written by Chuck Berry
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I left my home in Norfolk Virginia
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California on my mind
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I straddled that Greyhound and
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Rode him into Raleigh and on across Caroline
We had motor trouble it turned into a struggle
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Half way across Alabam
G7
And that 'Hound broke down and left us all stranded
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In downtown Birmingham
Right away I bought me a through train ticket
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Riding across Mississippi clean
G7
And I was on that midnight flyer out of Birmingham
C
Smoking into New Orleans
Somebody help me get out of Louisiana
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Just help me get to Houston town
G7
There are people there who care a little about me
C
And they won't let a poor boy down
Sure as you're born they bought me a silk suit
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They put luggage in my hands
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And I woke up high over Albuquerque
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On a jet to the promised land
We stopped at Charlotte we by passed Rock Hill
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We never was a minute late
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We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown
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Rolling out of Georgia state
Working on a T-bone steak
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I had a party flying over to the golden state
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When the pilot told us that in thirteen minutes
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He would get us to the terminal gate
Swing Low Chariot come down easy
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Taxi to the terminal door
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Cut your engines and cool you wings
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And let me make it to the telephone
Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia
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Tidewater 4-10-0-9
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Tell the folks back home this is the promised land
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Calling and the boy's on the line
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