WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Jerry Lee Lewis - Promised Land Chords | Ver. 1
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(Drums Start) Well I
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Left my home in Norfolk, Virginia,
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California on my mind.
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I posted this Greyhound, rode him into Raleigh,
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And on across Caroline.
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We stopped in Charlotte but bypassed Rock Hill,
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And we never was a minute late.
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We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown,
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Rollin' across the Georgia state.
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We had motor trouble, it turned into a struggle,
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Half way 'cross Alabam,
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And that 'hound broke down and left us all stranded
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In downtown Birmingham.
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Straight off I bought me a through-train ticket,
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That drives across the Mississippi clean
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And I was on that midnight flyer out of Birmingham
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Smoking into New Orleans.
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Somebody help me get out of Louisiana
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Just to help me get to Houston Town
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There's people there who care a little about me
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And they won't let the poor boy down
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Soon as I was born, they bought me a silk suit
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Put luggage in my hand
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And I woke up high over Alburquerque
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On a jet to the promised land
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Working on a T-bone steak a la carte
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Flying over to the Golden State
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When the driver told me in thirteen minutes
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we'd be headed for the terminal gate
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My bearings by Jerry, jumped my knee
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Taxi to the terminal zone
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Cut your engines and cool your wings
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Then take me to the telephone
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Los Angeles, give me No'folk, V'ginia
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Tidewater four ten o nine
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Tell the folks back home this is the promised land calling
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And the poor boy is on the line
[Outro]
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Take it joe one more time, here
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(Fades out.................................................)
