Promised Land Elvis Presley

[Intro]
Oh, get on up

[Verse 1]
I left my home in Norfolk, Virginia, California on my mind
I straddled that Greyhound and rode him into Raleigh and on across Caroline

[Verse 2]
We had motor trouble that turned into a struggle halfway across Alabam'
Well, the 'Hound broke down and left us all stranded in downtown Birmingham

[Verse 3]
Right away, I bought me a through train ticket, riding across Mississippi clean
I was on that Midnight Flyer out of Birmingham, smoking into New Orleans

[Verse 4]
Somebody help me get out of Louisiana, just help me get to Houston town
There are people there who care a little about me and they won't let the poor boy down

[Verse 5]
Sure as you're born, they bought me a silk suit and put luggage in my hand
And I woke up high over Albuquerque on a jet to the promised land

[Pre-Chorus]
A-workin' on a T-bone steak a la carte, flying over to the Golden State
When the pilot told us in thirteen minutes he would set us at the terminal gate