Promissed Land-The Hit Band

[ti:Promissed Land] [ar:The Hit Band] [al:The Best of Rock n Roll] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Promissed Land - The Hit Band [00:11.20]I left my home in Norfolk Virginia [00:13.29]California on my mind [00:14.74] [00:16.16]I straddled that Greyhound [00:17.62]And rode into Raleigh and on across Caroline [00:20.22] [00:21.25]We had motor trouble that turn into a struggle [00:23.72]Halfway across Alabama [00:25.11] [00:26.27]And that hound broke down and left us all stranded [00:28.88]In downtown Birmingham [00:30.29] [00:31.78]Right away I brought me a through train ticket [00:33.91]Ridin' across Mississippi clean [00:35.82] [00:36.62]I was on that midnight flyer out of Birmingham [00:39.39]Smoking into New Orleans [00:40.97] [00:42.21]Somebody help me get out of Louisiana [00:44.15]Just help me get to Houston Town [00:46.13] [00:47.11]There are people there who care a little about me [00:49.68]And they won't let the poor boy down [00:51.14] [01:07.26]Sure as you're born brought me a silk suit [01:09.17]Put luggage in my hand [01:10.61] [01:11.60]And I woke up high over Albuquerque [01:13.58]On a jet to the promised land [01:15.63] [01:16.77]Working on a T-bone steak a la carte [01:19.20]Flying over to the golden state [01:20.84] [01:21.81]When the pilot told us in thirteen minutes [01:23.94]He would set us at the terminal gate [01:25.98] [01:27.26]Swing low chariot come down easy [01:29.15]Taxi to the terminal zone [01:31.04] [01:31.70]Cut your engines and cool your wings [01:34.38]And let me make it to the telephone [01:36.03] [01:37.26]Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia [01:39.62]Tidewater four ten o nine [01:41.37] [01:42.48]Tell the folks back home [01:43.63]This is the promised land calling [01:44.91]And the poor boy is on the line