Promised Land Chords

[Verse 1]
 
E
Left my home in Norfolk, Virginia,
                 A
California on my mind.
B
I straddled that Greyhound, rode him into Raleigh,
                  E
And on across Caroline.
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
E
We stopped in Charlotte but bypassed Rock Hill,
                          A
And we never was a minute late.
B
We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown,
                           E
Rollin' out of Georgia state.
 
 
[Verse 3]
 
E
We had motor trouble, it turned into a struggle,
                   A
Half way 'cross Alabam,
B
And that 'hound broke down and left us all stranded
                   E
In downtown Birmingham.
 
 
[Verse 4]
 
E
Right away, I bought me a through-train ticket,
                         A
Right 'cross Mississippi clean
B
And I was on that midnight flyer out of Birmingham
                   E
Smoking into New Orleans.
 
 
[Verse 5]
 
E
Somebody help me get out of Louisiana
                               A
Just to help me get to Houston Town
B
There are people there who care a little about me
                                E
And they won't let the poor boy down
 
 
[Verse 6]
 
E
Sure as you're born they bought me a silk suit
                  A
Put luggage in my hand
B
And I woke up high over Alburquerque
                         E
On a jet to the promised land
 
 
[Verse 7]
 
E
Working on a T-bone steak a la carte
                          A
Flying over to the Golden State
B
When the pilot told us in thirteen minutes
                                E
He would set us at the terminal gate
 
 
[Verse 8]
 
E
Swing low chariot come down easy
                     A
Taxi to the terminal zone
B
Cut your engines and cool your wings
                              E
And let me make it to the telephone
 
 
[Verse 9]
 
E
Los Angeles, give me No'folk, V'ginia
                     A
Tidewater four ten o nine
B
Tell the folks back home 

this is the promised land calling
                           E
And the poor boy is on the line