Promised Land (Live)

I left my home in Norfolk Virginia

California on my mind

Straddled that Greyhound

Rode him past Raleigh

On across Caroline

Stopped in Charlotte

And bypassed Rock Hill

And we never was a minute late

We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown

Rollin' 'cross the Georgia state

We had motor trouble it turned into a struggle

Half way 'cross Alabam

And that 'hound broke down

And left us all stranded

In downtown Birmingham

Run away I bought me a through train ticket

Ridin' cross Mississippi clean

And I was on that midnight flyer 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

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