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Introduction:
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Left my home in Norfolk, Virginia, California on my mind.
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I straddled that Greyhound, rode him into Raleigh, and on across Caro-line.
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We drived by Charlotte and drove through Rock Hill, and we never was a minute late.
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We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown, rollin' out of Georgia state.
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We had motor trouble, it turned into a struggle, Half way 'cross Ala-bam,
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And the 'hound broke down and left us all stranded, in downtown Birming-ham
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Right away, I bought me a through-train ticket, straight across Mississippi clean
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I hopped aboard that midnight flyer, smoking into New Or-leans.
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Somebody gotta help me get out of Louisiana, gotta help me get to Houston Town
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There's an uncle there who cares a bit about me, and he won't let the poor boy down
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Well sure as you're born they bought me a silk suit, put some luggage in my hand
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And I woke up high over Alburquerque, on a jet to the promised land, yeah yeah yeah
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Somebody gotta help me get out of Louisiana, gotta help me get to Houston Town
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There's an uncle there who cares a bit about me, and he won't let the poor boy down
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Well sure as you're born they bought me a silk suit, put some luggage in my hand
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And I woke up high over Alburquerque, on a jet to the promised land
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Swing low chariot come down easy, taxi to the terminal zone
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Cut your engines and cool your wings, and let me make it to the tele-phone
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Los Angeles, get me No'folk, V'ginia, Tidewater four ten o' nine
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Tell the folks back home this is the promised land calling, the poor boy is on the line
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