[00:00.00]Promised Land - Mos Def [00:03.94]I left my home [00:04.88]In Norfolk Virginia [00:06.18]California [00:07.12]On my mind [00:09.68]Straddled [00:10.18]That Greyhound [00:10.93]Rode him [00:11.68]Past Raleigh [00:12.49]On across [00:13.30]Caroline [00:15.36]Stopped [00:15.73]In Charlotte [00:17.11]And bypassed [00:18.11]Rock Hill [00:18.97]And we never [00:19.85]Was a minute late [00:21.04]We was [00:21.54]Ninety miles [00:22.22]Out of Atlanta [00:23.10]By sundown [00:23.91]Rolling across [00:24.72]The Georgia state [00:27.15]We had motor [00:28.03]Trouble it [00:28.53]Turned into [00:29.21]A struggle [00:29.64]Half way [00:30.45]Cross Alabama [00:31.14]And that hound [00:32.57]Broke down [00:33.51]And left us [00:34.32]All stranded [00:34.88]In downtown [00:36.50]Birmingham [00:50.73]Straight off [00:51.60]I bought me [00:52.79]A through [00:53.29]Train ticket [00:54.04]Riding cross [00:54.66]Mississippi [00:55.54]Clean [00:56.04]And I was on [00:57.16]That midnight [00:57.84]Flyer out [00:58.60]Of Birmingham [00:59.35]Smoking into [01:00.03]New Orleans [01:02.30]Somebody [01:02.93]Help me get [01:03.80]Out of Louisiana [01:04.73]Just help me get [01:05.79]To Houston town [01:07.67]There's [01:08.23]People there [01:09.11]Who care [01:10.04]A little about me [01:11.17]And they won't let [01:12.22]The poor boy down [01:13.97]Sure [01:14.41]As you're born [01:15.29]They bought me [01:16.28]A silk suit [01:16.96]Put luggage [01:17.84]In my hands [01:19.47]And I woke up high [01:21.27]Over Albuquerque [01:22.77]On a jet [01:23.52]To the promised land [01:37.50]Working on a T bone [01:39.00]Steak a la carte [01:40.05]Flying over [01:40.55]To the Golden State [01:42.86]The pilot told me [01:44.05]In thirteen minutes [01:45.98]We'd be heading [01:47.11]In the terminal gate [01:49.04]Swing low [01:49.85]Sweet chariot [01:51.22]Come down easy [01:52.16]Taxi [01:52.54]To the terminal zone [01:54.84]Cut your engines [01:56.22]Cool your wings [01:57.46]And let me make it [01:58.59]To the telephone [02:00.94]Los Angeles [02:02.12]Give me [02:02.68]Norfolk Virginia [02:03.12]Tidewater [02:03.68]Four ten O nine [02:04.87]Tell the folks [02:06.05]Back home [02:08.05]This is [02:08.67]The promised land [02:09.42]Calling [02:09.79]And the poor boy's [02:11.36]On the line
