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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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