The Promised Land

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