The Promised Land Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G]
[D][C]
[G]I left

[Verse 1]
my home in Norfolk,
Virginia
California on my [C]mind
[D]I straddled that Greyhound
and rode into Raleigh
And on across Car[C]oline[G]

[Verse 2]
I [G]had motor trouble that
turn into a struggle
Halfway [C]across Alabam'
And that [D]hound broke down
and left me all stranded
In downtown Birm[C]ing[G]ham

[Verse 3]
[G]Right away I brought me a
through train ticket
Ridin' across Mississip[C]pi clean
And I was [D]on that midnight flyer
out of Birmingham
Smoking into New Or[C]leans

[Verse 4]
[G]Somebody,
help me get out of Louisiana
Just to help me get to Houston [C]Town
A lot of [D]people there who
care a little about me
And they won't let a poor
[C]boy down

[Interlude 1]
[G]
[C][D]
[C][G]

[Verse 5]
[G]Sure as you're born
brought me a silk suit
And put luggage in my [C]hand
And I [D]woke up high over Albuquerque
On a jet to the Promised [G]Land

[Verse 6]
[G]Working on a T- bone steak à la carte
Flying over to the golden [C]state
When the pi[D]lot told me,
"In thirteen minutes
He would set us at the terminal [G]gate"
[C]Ooh, swing

[Verse 7]
[G]low chariot come down easy
Taxi to the terminal [C]zone
[D]Cut your engines and cool your wings
And let me make it to the tele[C]phone

[Verse 8]
[G]Los Angeles give me Norfolk,
Virginia
Tidewa[D]ter, [G]4- [D]10- 09
And tell the folks back home this
is the Promised Land calling
And the poor boy is on the line
[G]

[Verse 9]
Swing low chariot come down easy
Taxi to the termin[D]al zone
And cut your engines and cool your wings

[Verse 10]
And let me make it to the telephone
[D]Los [G]Angeles give me Norfolk,
Virginia
[C]Tidewater, 4- 10- 09
And tell the [D]folks back home this
is the Promised Land calling
And the poor boy is on the [G]line[C]

[Verse 11]
Tell [D]the folks back home this is
the Promised Land calling

[Outro 1]
And the big boy is on the line
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[G]
[D]
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