The Promised Land-Meat Loaf

[ti:The Promised Land (Album Version)] [ar:Meat Loaf] [al:Piece of the Action: The Best of Meat Loaf] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Promised Land (Album Version) - Meat Loaf (密特·劳弗) [00:11.32]I left my home in Norfolk Virginia [00:13.76]California on my mind [00:16.82]I straddled that greyhound [00:18.13]And rode him into Raleigh [00:19.57]And on across Caroline [00:21.56] [00:22.29]I had motor trouble that turned into a struggle [00:24.91]Halfway across Alabama [00:27.40]And that 'Hound broke down and left me [00:29.79]All stranded in Downtown Birmingham [00:32.44] [00:33.25]Right away I bought me a through train ticket [00:35.70]Ridin' across Mississippi clean [00:38.32]And I was on the Midnight Flyer out of Birmingham [00:41.39]Smokin' into New Orleans [00:43.47] [00:44.09]Somebody helped me get out of Louisiana [00:46.53]Just to help me get to Houston Town [00:49.24]There are people there who care a little 'bout me [00:52.32]And they won't let a poor boy down [00:54.93] [01:07.24]Sure as you're born they bought me a silk suit [01:09.92]They put luggage in my hand [01:11.86] [01:12.55]And I woke up high over Albuquerque [01:15.12]On a jet to the Promised Land [01:17.37] [01:18.12]Workin' on a T-bone steak [01:19.72]I had a party flyin' over to the Golden State [01:23.23]When the pilot told me in thirteen minutes [01:26.17]He would get us at the Terminal zone [01:28.54] [01:29.11]Swing low chariot come down easy [01:31.80]Taxi to the Terminal zone [01:33.68] [01:34.37]Cut your engines and cool your wings [01:37.06]And let me make it to the telephone [01:39.77]Los Angeles give me Norfolk [01:42.08]Virginia Tidewater 41009 [01:45.02]And tell the folks back home [01:46.40]This is the Promised Land calling [01:47.97]And the poor boy's on the line [01:50.04] [01:52.23]Swing low chariot come down easy [01:55.00]Taxi to the Terminal zone [01:56.93] [01:57.68]Cut your engines and cool your wings [02:00.09]And let me make it to the telephone [02:02.94]Los Angeles give me Norfolk [02:05.40]Virginia Tidewater 41009 [02:08.22]And tell the folks back home [02:09.64]This is the Promised Land calling [02:10.96]And the poor boy's on the line [02:13.54]And tell the folks back home [02:15.11]This is the Promised Land calling [02:16.49]And their big boy's on the line