'Promised Land' by Elvis Presley - Guitar Tutorial

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I left my home in Norfolk Virginia 
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California on my mind 
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I straddled that Greyhound and  
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Rode him into Raleigh and on across Caroline  
  
We had motor trouble it turned into a struggle 
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Half way across Alabam 
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And that 'Hound broke down and left us all stranded  
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In downtown Birmingham 
                  
Right away I bought me a through train ticket  
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Riding across Mississippi clean  
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And I was on that midnight flyer out of Birmingham 
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Smoking into New Orleans 
  
Somebody help me get out of Louisiana  
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Just help me get to Houston town  
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There are people there who care a little about me 
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And they won't let a poor boy down  
  
Sure as you're born they bought me a silk suit  
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They put luggage in my hands  
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And I woke up high over Albuquerque  
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On a jet to the promised land 
  
We stopped at Charlotte we by passed Rock Hill  
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We never was a minute late 
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We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown 
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Rolling out of Georgia state  
  
Working on a T-bone steak  
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I had a party flying over to the golden state  
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When the pilot told us that in thirteen minutes  
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He would get us to the terminal gate  
  
Swing Low Chariot come down easy  
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Taxi to the terminal door 
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Cut your engines and cool you wings  
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And let me make it to the telephone  
  
Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia  
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Tidewater 4-10-0-9  
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Tell the folks back home this is the promised land  
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Calling and the boy's on the line