Promised Land-Chuck Berry

[00:04.04]I left my home in [00:04.98]Norfolk Virginia [00:06.26]California on my mind [00:09.27]Straddled that greyhound, rode him past [00:11.65]RaleighOn across [00:12.94]CarolineStopped in [00:15.56]Charlotte and bypassed rock hill [00:17.71]And we never was a minute late [00:20.23]We was ninety miles out of [00:21.81]Atlanta by sundown [00:23.23]Rollin' 'cross the [00:24.72]Georgia state [00:26.24]We had motor trouble it turned into a struggle [00:28.82]Half way 'cross [00:29.74]AlabamaAnd that 'hound broke down and left us all stranded [00:34.44]In downtown [00:35.01]Birmingham [00:37.66]Straight off, [00:49.31]I bought me a through train ticket [00:51.66]Ridin' 'cross [00:52.45]Mississippi clean [00:54.27]And I was on that midnight flier out of [00:56.86]Birmingham [00:57.44]Smoking into [00:58.17]New Orleans [01:00.36]Somebody help me get out of [01:02.22]LouisianaJust help me get to [01:03.93]Houston Town [01:05.90]There's people there who care a little 'bout me [01:08.72]And they won't let the poor boy down [01:11.92]Sure as you're born, they bought me a silk suit [01:14.78]Put luggage in my hands [01:17.27]And I woke up high over [01:19.67]Albuquerque [01:20.39]On a jet to the promised land [01:35.25]Workin' on a [01:35.76]T-bone steak a la carte [01:37.50]Flying over to the golden state [01:40.45]Oh, when the pilot told me us in thirteen minutes [01:43.64]He was headin' at the terminal gate [01:46.95]Swing low sweet chariot, come down easy [01:49.51]Taxi to the terminal zone [01:52.46]Cut your engines and cool your wings [01:55.02]And let me make it to the telephone [01:58.47]Los Angeles give me [01:59.74]Norfolk Virginia [02:00.99]Tidewater four ten o nine [02:04.03]Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin' [02:06.45]And the poor boy's on the line [02:08.57]