Promised Land
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Standard tuning.

Intro: A (x02220@1)   
Ah, get on it!
  A (x02220@1)                                               DI (xx0232@1)left my home in Norfolk Virginia California on my mind.
  E (022100@1)                                                               AI (x02220@1)straddled that Greyhound, and rode into Raleigh and on across Caroline.
A (x02220@1)                                                                 DWe (xx0232@1)had motor trouble that turned into a struggle, halfway across Alabam'.
          E (022100@1)                                                           AWell (x02220@1)that hound broke down and left us all stranded, in downtown Birmingham.
A (x02220@1)                                                                       DRight (xx0232@1)away I brought me a through train ticket, ridin' across Mississippi clean.
      E (022100@1)                                                               AAnd (x02220@1)I was on the midnight flyer out of Birmingham, smokin' into New Orleans.
A (x02220@1)                                                                     DSomebody (xx0232@1)helped me get out of Louisiana, just to help me get to Houston Town.
EThere (022100@1)are people there who care a little about me,
                                Aand (x02220@1)they won't let the poor boy down. Take it!
A (x02220@1)                                                                DSure (xx0232@1)as you're born they brought me a silk suit, put luggage in my hand.
      E (022100@1)                                                     AAnd (x02220@1)I woke up high over Albuquerque, on a jet to the promised land.
A (x02220@1)                                                                DWorking (xx0232@1)on a T-bone steak I had a party, flyin' over to the golden state.
E (022100@1)                                                                           AAh (x02220@1)when the pilot told us in thirteen minutes he would set us at the terminal gate.
A (x02220@1)                                                    DSwing (xx0232@1)low chariot come down easy, taxi to the terminal zone.
E (022100@1)                                                                 ACut (x02220@1)your engines and cool your wings, and let me make it to the telephone.
A (x02220@1)                                                        DLos (xx0232@1)Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia, tidewater four ten o nine.
E (022100@1)   
Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin',
                          Aand (x02220@1)the poor boy's on the line.
A (x02220@1)                                                                DWorking (xx0232@1)on a T-bone steak I had a party, flyin' over to the golden state.
E (022100@1)                                                                           AAh (x02220@1)when the pilot told us in thirteen minutes he would set us at the terminal gate.
A (x02220@1)                                                    DSwing (xx0232@1)low chariot come down easy, taxi to the terminal zone.
E (022100@1)                                                                 ACut (x02220@1)your engines and cool your wings, and let me make it to the telephone.
A (x02220@1)                                                        DLos (xx0232@1)Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia, tidewater four ten o nine.
ETell (022100@1)the folks back home this is the promised land callin',
                          Aand (x02220@1)the poor boy's on the line.