Promised Land chords by Love Sculpture

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Verse 1
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I left my home in North Park,
Virginia,
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California on my mind
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We straddled that Greyhound
rolling into Raleigh
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and all across Carolina
We stopped at Charleston
by Bass Rock Hill,
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we never was a minute late
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We was ninety miles out of Atlanta
by sundown,
rolling out of Georgia State
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We had motor trouble
and turned into a struggle
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halfway across Alabama
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When that hound broke down
and left us all stranded
in downtown Birmingham
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By the way,
bought me a through -train ticket
right across Mississippi Clean
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And I was on that midnight
flyin' out of Birmingham
a -smokin' into New Orleans
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Somebody helped me
get out of Louisiana
just to help me get to Houston town
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But there are people there
who care a little about me
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and they won't let the poor boy down
They shoulda bought me, me a silk suit,
a good luggage in my hand
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And  then I woke up
high over Albuquerque
on a jet to the Promised
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Land
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Workin' on a T -Bone steak,
I caught it flyin' over to
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the Golden State.
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When the pilot told us in thirteen minutes
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he would set us at the terminal gate.
A swing load chariot, come down easy
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Taxi to the terminal zone
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Cut your wings and cool your wings
And let me make you through the telephone
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Los Angeles, give me Norfolk,
Virginia Drive
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404 -1009 Tell the folks back home
this is the promised land I'm calling
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and the poor boy's on the line