| [00:04.04] |
I left my home in |
| [00:04.98] |
Norfolk Virginia |
| [00:06.26] |
California on my mind |
| [00:09.27] |
Straddled that greyhound, rode him past |
| [00:11.65] |
RaleighOn across |
| [00:12.94] |
CarolineStopped in |
| [00:15.56] |
Charlotte and bypassed rock hill |
| [00:17.71] |
And we never was a minute late |
| [00:20.23] |
We was ninety miles out of |
| [00:21.81] |
Atlanta by sundown |
| [00:23.23] |
Rollin' 'cross the |
| [00:24.72] |
Georgia state |
| [00:26.24] |
We had motor trouble it turned into a struggle |
| [00:28.82] |
Half way 'cross |
| [00:29.74] |
AlabamaAnd that 'hound broke down and left us all stranded |
| [00:34.44] |
In downtown |
| [00:35.01] |
Birmingham |
| [00:37.66] |
Straight off, |
| [00:49.31] |
I bought me a through train ticket |
| [00:51.66] |
Ridin' 'cross |
| [00:52.45] |
Mississippi clean |
| [00:54.27] |
And I was on that midnight flier out of |
| [00:56.86] |
Birmingham |
| [00:57.44] |
Smoking into |
| [00:58.17] |
New Orleans |
| [01:00.36] |
Somebody help me get out of |
| [01:02.22] |
LouisianaJust help me get to |
| [01:03.93] |
Houston Town |
| [01:05.90] |
There's people there who care a little 'bout me |
| [01:08.72] |
And they won't let the poor boy down |
| [01:11.92] |
Sure as you're born, they bought me a silk suit |
| [01:14.78] |
Put luggage in my hands |
| [01:17.27] |
And I woke up high over |
| [01:19.67] |
Albuquerque |
| [01:20.39] |
On a jet to the promised land |
| [01:35.25] |
Workin' on a |
| [01:35.76] |
T-bone steak a la carte |
| [01:37.50] |
Flying over to the golden state |
| [01:40.45] |
Oh, when the pilot told me us in thirteen minutes |
| [01:43.64] |
He was headin' at the terminal gate |
| [01:46.95] |
Swing low sweet chariot, come down easy |
| [01:49.51] |
Taxi to the terminal zone |
| [01:52.46] |
Cut your engines and cool your wings |
| [01:55.02] |
And let me make it to the telephone |
| [01:58.47] |
Los Angeles give me |
| [01:59.74] |
Norfolk Virginia |
| [02:00.99] |
Tidewater four ten o nine |
| [02:04.03] |
Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin' |
| [02:06.45] |
And the poor boy's on the line |
| [02:08.57] |
|