THE PROMISED LAND
Grateful Dead (Chuck Berry)

NOTE: C F G / I IV V boogie the entire song...
      instrumental solo over verse chords when you feel like it.

VERSE 1:
C                                                    F
I left my home in Norfolk Virginia, California on my mind
G                                                                    C
Straddled that Greyhound, it rode me past Raleigh, and on across Caroline

VERSE 2:
C                                                                      F
Stopped in Charlotte and bypassed Rock Hill, and we never was a minute late
G                                                                         C
We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown, rollin' 'cross the Georgia state

VERSE 3:
Had motor trouble it turned into a struggle, half way 'cross Alabam
The 'hound broke down left us all stranded in downtown Birmingham

VERSE 4:
Straight off bought me a through train ticket, right across Mississippi clean
And I was on the midnight flyer out of Birmingham, smoking into New Orleans

VERSE 5:
Somebody help me get out of Louisiana, just help me get to Houston town
People are there who care a little 'bout me, and they won't let the poor boy down

VERSE 6:
Sure as she bore me, she bought me a silk suit, put luggage in my hands
And I woke up high over Albuquerque, on a jet to the promised land

VERSE 7:
Workin' on a T-bone steak a la carte, flying over to the Golden State
When the pilot told us in thirteen minutes, we'd be headin' in the terminal gate

VERSE 8:
Swing low sweet chariot, come down easy, taxi to the terminal zone
Cut your engines, cool your wings, and let me make it to the telephone

VERSE 9:
Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia, Tidewater four ten oh nine
Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin', and the poor boy's on the line