The Promised Land Chords by Dave Edmunds

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I left my home in North Carolina, California [D] on my mind.
[G] We straddled out Greyhound Road and into Raleigh and on across [C] Carolina.
_ We followed some miles across Rockville, we never was [F] a minute late.
[G] Home was 90 miles out of Atlanta, sitting down rolling out [C] of Georgia State.
We had a load of trouble trying to use the highway across [F] Alabama.
[G] When a hound walked down and left, he lost and it's now.
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_ The crew tanked it, got rid of all the slippers and beaten [F] clean.
When [G] I was on that midnight fly, a lot of barmen found my smoking and turned me on [C] to yinz.
Somebody helped me get out of Louisiana just to help me out of Houston [F] town.
Well [G] there are people there who care a little about me and they won't hold my boy [C] down.
Georgia barmen bought me suits and put a good package in my [F] hand.
And [G] then I woke up high over Albuquerque on a jet with my [C] barman's friend.
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_ [C] On a three-boat stake out a client over through the [F] Golden State.
[G] Opened my door to 1013, manatee potatoes at the terminal [C] gate.
Swing low, Terry, come down easy, taxi to the terminal [F] zone.
[G] Turn your engines into your wheels and let me make that little telephone.
[C] _ Los Angeles, dimming off of a telecom [F] 10-09.
Tell [G] my boys back home this is the barman's friend calling and making a big [C] end. _ _ _ _ _ _ _