Chuck Berry, The Promised Land (1964)
^{Key: :[C#] (w: Chuck Berry)}

VERSE 1:
[C#] I left my home in Norfolk Virginia
California on my [F#] mind
I [G#] straddled that Greyhound, and rode him
into Raleigh and on across Carol-[C#]-ine

VERSE 2:
We stopped at Charlotte, we by passed Rock Hill
we never was a minute [F#] late
we was [G#] ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown
rolling out of Georgia [C#] state

VERSE 3:
We had motor trouble it turned into a struggle
half way across Ala-[F#]-bam
and that [G#] 'Hound broke down and left us all
stranded, in downtown Birming-[C#]-ham

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VERSE 4:
[C#] Right away I bought me a through train ticket
riding across Mississippi [F#] clean
And I was [G#] on that midnight flyer out of Birmingham
smoking into New Or [C#] leans

VERSE 5:
Somebody help me get out of Louisiana
just help me get to Houston [F#] Town
There are [G#] people there who care a little about me
and they won't let a poor boy [C#] down

VERSE 6:
Sure as you're born they bought me a silk suit
They put luggage in my [F#] hand
And I [G#] woke up high over Albuquerque
On a jet to the promised [C#] land

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VERSE 7:
[C#] Working on a T-bone steak
I had a party flying over to the golden [F#] state
when the [G#] pilot told us that in thirteen minutes
he would get us to the terminal [C#] gate

VERSE 8:
Swing low chariot, come down easy
taxi to the terminal [F#] zone
[G#] cut your engines and cool you wings
and let me make it to the tele-[C#]-phone

VERSE 9:
Los Angeles, give me Norfolk Virginia
Tidewater, forteen-o-[F#]-nine
tell the [G#] folks back home this is the promised
land callin', and the boy's on the [C#] line

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