Karaoke Track: Promised Land by Chuck Berry (Sunfly)

PROMISED

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

I straddled that Greyhound
and rode him into Raleigh
and on across Caroline

We stopped in Charlotte
but bypassed Rock Hill

we never was
a minute late

We had a little trouble

turned into a struggle
halfway across Alabam&#39;

And that &#39;Hound
broke down

and left us all stranded
in downtown
Birmingham

Instrumental
12 seconds

Right away I bought me
a two train ticket

ridin&#39; cross
Mississippi Queen

And I was on that
Midnight Flyer

out of Birmingham
smokin&#39; into
New Orleans

Somebody help me
get out of Louisiana

help me get to
Houston town

There are people
down there

who care a little &#39;hout me
and they won&#39;t let
the poor boy down

Sure as you&#39;re born

they bought me a pistol
put luggage in my hand

And I woke up high
over Albuquerque

on a jet to
The Promised Land

Instrumental
12 seconds

Workin&#39; on a T-hone steak
a la carte

flyin&#39; over to
the Golden State

When the pilot told us
that in thirteen minutes
he would set us
at the terminal gate

Swing low chariot
come down easy

taxi to the
terminal zone

Cut your engines
and cool your wings

and let me make it
to the telephone

Los Angeles
give me Norfolk. Virginia

Tidewater
four-ten-oh-nine

Tell the folks back home
this is The Promised

Land callin&#39;
and the poor boy&#39;s
on the line

PROMISED