The Promised Land

	  		
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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 
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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 
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And I was on that midnight flyer out of Birmingham 
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Smoking into New Orleans 


Somebody help me get out of Louisiana 
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Just help me get to Houston town 
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There are people there who care a little about me 
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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 -1 - -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