Promised Land - Michael Marra Chords
Chords: A, D, E
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Genre: folk, rock, singer-songwriter
Michel Marra - Promised Land (Chuck Berry)
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[Verse]
A D
Left my home in Norfolk, Virginia, California on my mind.
E A
I straddled that Greyhound, rode him into Raleigh, and on across Caro-line.
A
We drived by Charlotte and drove through Rock Hill, and we never was a minute
D
late.
E A
We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown, rollin' out of Georgia state.
A D
We had motor trouble, it turned into a struggle, Half way 'cross Ala-bam,
E A
And the 'hound broke down and left us all stranded, in downtown Birming-ham
A
Right away, I bought me a through-train ticket, straight across Mississippi
D
clean
E A
I hopped aboard that midnight flyer, smoking into New Or-leans.
[Solo]
A D E A A D E A
A
Somebody gotta help me get out of Louisiana, gotta help me get to Houston
D
Town
E
There's an uncle there who cares a bit about me, and he won't let the poor
A
boy down
A
Well sure as you're born they bought me a silk suit, put some luggage in my
D
hand
E A
And I woke up high over Alburquerque, on a jet to the promised land, yeah
yeah yeah
[Solo]
A D E A A D E A
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