[ti:Promised Land (Live - 8/27/72 Veneta, Oregon) (Live)] [ar:Grateful Dead/Phil Lesh/Jerry Garcia/Bob Weir] [al:Veneta, OR 8/27/72 (The Complete Sunshine Daydream Concert)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Promised Land (Live - 8/27/72 Veneta, Oregon) (Live) - Grateful Dead (感恩而死)/Phil Lesh/Jerry Garcia/Bob Weir [00:09.43]I left my home in Norfolk Virginia California on my mind [00:13.71]Straddled that greyhound it rode me past Raleigh and on across Caroline [00:19.61]Stopped in Charlotte and bypassed rock hill and we never was a minute late [00:25.40]We was ninety miles out of atlanta by sundown rolling cross the Georgia state [00:31.61]Had motor trouble it turned into a struggle half way cross alabam [00:37.44]The hound broke down left us all stranded in downtown Birmingham [01:07.58]Straight off bought me a through train ticket right across Mississippi clean [01:13.07]And I was on the midnight flyer out of Birmingham [01:16.49]Smoking into new Orleans [01:19.34]Somebody help me get out of Louisiana [01:21.92]Just help me get to Houston Town [01:25.38]People are there who care a little bout me [01:28.38]And they won't let the poor boy down [01:31.39]Sure as she bore me she bought me a silk suit put luggage [01:34.70]In my hands [01:36.96]And I woke up high over Albuquerque [01:39.69]On a jet to the promised land [02:06.79]Working on a t bone steak a la care [02:09.20]Flying over to the golden state [02:12.82]When the pilot told us in thirteen minutes [02:15.43]Wed be heading in the terminal gate [02:18.59]Swing low sweet chariot come down easy [02:21.46]Taxi to the terminal zone [02:24.66]Cut your engines cool your wings [02:27.00]And let me make it to the telephone [02:30.31]Los angeles give me Norfolk Virginia [02:33.02]Tidewater four ten on nine [02:36.11]Tell the folks back home this is the promised land calling [02:39.12]And the poor boys on the line