Promised Land-The Rockers

[ti:Promised Land] [ar:Mark Kyllon] [al:Authentic Rock & Roll] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Promised Land - The Rockers [00:03.64]Oh yeah on [00:04.34] [00:10.05]I left my home in Norfolk Virginia [00:12.40]California on my mind [00:14.08] [00:14.97]Straddled that greyhound [00:16.14]Rode him past Raleigh [00:17.44]On across Caroline [00:18.94] [00:19.87]We had motor trouble [00:21.04]It turned into a struggle [00:22.06]Half way 'cross Alabama [00:24.10] [00:24.74]And that 'hound broke down [00:26.02]And left us all stranded [00:27.09]In downtown Birmingham [00:28.75] [00:29.61]I bought me a through train ticket [00:31.79]Ridin' 'cross Mississippi clean [00:33.91] [00:34.45]And I was on that midnight flier out of Birmingham [00:36.97]Smoking into New Orleans [00:38.62] [00:39.39]Somebody help me get out of Louisiana [00:41.67]Just help me get to Houston Town [00:43.66] [00:44.42]There's people there [00:45.54]Who care a little 'bout me [00:46.66]And they won't let the poor boy down [00:48.43] [00:49.62]Take [00:50.05] [01:02.94]Sure as you're born [01:03.77]They bought me a silk suit [01:05.12]Put luggage in my hands [01:07.01] [01:07.74]And I woke up high over Albuquerque [01:09.85]On a jet to the promised land [01:11.75] [01:12.63]Workin' on a T-bone steak a la carte [01:14.82]Flying over to the golden state [01:16.83] [01:17.47]Oh [01:17.69]When the pilot told me us in thirteen minutes [01:19.87]He was headin' at the terminal gate [01:21.77] [01:22.51]Swing low sweet chariot [01:23.66]Come down easy [01:24.90]Taxi to the terminal zone [01:26.58] [01:27.42]Cut your engines and cool your wings [01:29.57]And let me make it to the telephone [01:31.22] [01:32.12]Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia [01:34.82]Tidewater four ten o nine [01:36.40] [01:37.00]Tell the folks back home [01:38.25]This is the promised land callin' [01:39.55]And the poor boy's on the line [01:41.20] [01:55.93]Workin' on a T-bone steak a la carte [01:57.81]Flying over to the golden state [01:59.69] [02:00.52]Oh [02:00.72]When the pilot told me us in thirteen minutes [02:02.92]He was headin' at the terminal gate [02:04.62] [02:05.46]Swing low sweet chariot [02:06.72]Come down easy [02:07.84]Taxi to the terminal zone [02:09.58] [02:10.45]Cut your engines and cool your wings [02:12.60]And let me make it to the telephone [02:14.10] [02:15.21]Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia [02:17.46]Tidewater four ten o nine [02:19.40] [02:20.06]Tell the folks back home [02:21.21]This is the promised land callin' [02:22.51]And the poor boy's on the line [02:24.19] [02:29.54]Yeah yeah yeah