Promised Land (Live at Palladium, New York, NY, April 30, 1977)-Grateful Dead

[00:03.85]I left my home in Norfolk Virginia California on my mind [00:08.79]Straddled that Greyhound it rode me past Raleigh [00:11.43]And on across Caroline [00:14.17]Stopped in Charlotte and bypassed Rock Hill [00:16.79]We never was a minute late [00:19.64]We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown [00:22.24]Rolling cross the Georgia state [00:24.07] [00:36.98]We had motor trouble it turned into a struggle [00:39.68]Half way across Alabam [00:42.52]The ahound broke down left us all stranded [00:45.11]In downtown Birmingham [00:47.86]Well we straight off bought me a through train ticket [00:50.93]Right across Mississippi clean [00:53.39]And I was on the midnight flyer out of Birmingham [00:55.96]Smoking into New Orleans [00:58.86]Somebody help me get out of Louisiana [01:01.25]Just help me get to Houston town [01:04.18]People are there who care a little about me [01:07.10]And they won't let the poor boy down [01:09.70]Sure as she bore me she bought me a silk suit [01:12.16]Put luggage in my hands [01:14.94]And I woke up high over Albuquerque [01:17.54]On a jet to the promised land [01:19.55] [01:44.83]Working on a Tbone steak a la carte [01:47.16]Flying over to the Golden State [01:49.97]When the pilot told us in thirteen minutes [01:52.58]We'd be heading in the terminal gate [01:55.45]Swing low sweet chariot come down easy [01:57.95]Taxi to the terminal zone [02:00.85]Cut your engines cool your wings [02:03.10]And let me make it to the telephone [02:06.06]Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia tide water four ten on nine [02:11.34]Tell the folks back home this is the promised land calling [02:14.01]And the poor boy's on the line [02:16.00]