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[00:00.000]The Promised Land (Remastered) - The Band
[00:07.396]I left my home in Norfolk Virginia
[00:10.198]California on my mind
[00:13.464]I boarded that greyhound
[00:15.041]Rode in into raliegh on across Caroline
[00:19.674]Stopped in charlotte to by pass Rockhill
[00:22.511]We never was a minute late
[00:25.570]We were ninty miles out of Atlanta by sundown
[00:28.831]Rollin' out of Georgia state
[00:31.790]We had motor trouble that turned into a struggle
[00:34.760]Halfway across Alabam
[00:37.404]And that bow broke down
[00:38.939]And left us stranded in downtown Birmingham
[00:55.869]Right away I bought a through train ticket
[00:58.391]Got across Mississippi clean
[01:01.184]And I was on that midnight flyer out of Birmingham
[01:04.648]Smokin' into New Orleans
[01:07.577]Somebody help me get out of Louisiana
[01:10.321]Help me get to Houston town
[01:12.965]There are people there who care a little 'bout me
[01:16.224]And won't put the poor boy down
[01:19.439]Georgia born they bought me a silk suit
[01:22.520]And put luggage in my hand
[01:25.011]And woke up high over albuquerque
[01:27.707]On a jet to the promised land
[01:54.734]Workin' on a tbone ala cartee
[01:57.431]Flyin' over to the golden state
[02:00.141]When the pilot told us in thirteen minutes
[02:03.013]He would set us at the terminal gate
[02:06.474]Swing low chariot come down easy
[02:09.148]Taxi to the terminal door
[02:12.247]Cut your engines and cool your wings
[02:14.673]And let me make it to the telephone
[02:18.067]Los angeles give me norfolk Virginia
[02:20.792]Tidewater four ten o nine
[02:23.415]Tell all the folks back home
[02:25.085]It's the promised land callin'
[02:26.479]And the poor boy is on the line