Promised Land (Full Vocal Version) [In the Style of Elvis Presley]

Ah, get on

I left my home in Norfolk, Virginia
California on my mind
Straddled that Greyhound
Rollin' into Raleigh
Then rolled across Caroline
Had motor trouble
It turned into a struggle
Halfway across Alabam'
The Hound broke down and left us all stranded
In downtown Birmingham

Right away, I bought me a through train ticket
Right across Mississippi clean
I was on that midnight flyer out of Birmingham
Smokin' into New Orleans
Somebody help me get out of Louisiana
Help me get to Houston town
The people there who care a little about me
Ain't gonna let the poor boy down
Take it

Sure as you're born
I bought me a silk suit
And put luggage in my hand
I woke up high over Albuquerque
On a jet to the promised land

Workin' on a T-bone steak a la carte
Flyin' over to the Golden State
The pilot told us that in thirteen minutes
He would set us at the terminal gate
Swing low, cherry
Come down easy
Taxi to the terminal zone
Cut your engines
And cool your wings
And let me make it to the telephone, Los Angeles

Give me Norfolk, Virginia
Tidewater Fourteen-oh-nine
Tell the folks back home
This is the promised land callin'
And the poor boy's on the line

Workin' on a T-bone steak a la carte
Flyin' over to the Golden State
The pilot told us that in thirteen minutes
He would set us at the terminal gate
Swing low, cherry
Come down easy
Taxi to the terminal zone
Cut your engines
And cool your wings
And let me make it to the telephone, Los Angeles

Give me Norfolk, Virginia
Tidewater Fourteen-oh-nine
Tell the folks back home
This is the promised land callin'
And the poor boy's on the line

Yeah, yeah, mm