Promised Land Lyrics
Promised Land - The Magic Time Travelers
Oh yeah on
I left my home in Norfolk Virginia
California on my mind
Straddled that greyhound
Rode him past Raleigh
On across Caroline
We had motor trouble
It turned into a struggle
Half way 'cross Alabama
And that 'hound broke down
And left us all stranded
In downtown Birmingham
I bought me a through train ticket
Ridin' 'cross Mississippi clean
And I was on that midnight flier out of Birmingham
Smoking into New Orleans
Somebody help me get out of Louisiana
Just help me get to Houston Town
There's people there
Who care a little 'bout me
And they won't let the poor boy down
Take
Sure as you're born
They bought me a silk suit
Put luggage in my hands
And I woke up high over Albuquerque
On a jet to the promised land
Workin' on a T-bone steak a la carte
Flying over to the golden state
Oh
When the pilot told me us in thirteen minutes
He was headin' at the terminal gate
Swing low sweet chariot
Come down easy
Taxi to the terminal zone
Cut your engines and cool your wings
And let me make it to the telephone
Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia
Tidewater four ten o nine
Tell the folks back home
This is the promised land callin'
And the poor boy's on the line
Workin' on a T-bone steak a la carte
Flying over to the golden state
Oh
When the pilot told me us in thirteen minutes
He was headin' at the terminal gate
Swing low sweet chariot
Come down easy
Taxi to the terminal zone
Cut your engines and cool your wings
And let me make it to the telephone
Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia
Tidewater four ten o nine
Tell the folks back home
This is the promised land callin'
And the poor boy's on the line
Yeah yeah yeah