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Promised Land
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Standard tuning.
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------2---2---2---------------2---2---2------ Repeat several times
--2---------------4p--2---4------------------
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Intro: A (+D)
Ah, get on it!
A D
I left my home in Norfolk Virginia California on my mind.
E A
I straddled that Greyhound, and rode into Raleigh and on across Caroline.
A D
We had motor trouble that turned into a struggle, halfway across Alabam'.
E A
Well that hound broke down and left us all stranded, in downtown Birmingham.
A D
Right away I brought me a through train ticket, ridin' across Mississippi
clean.
E A
And I was on the midnight flyer out of Birmingham, smokin' into New Orleans.
A D
Somebody helped me get out of Louisiana, just to help me get to Houston
Town.
E
There are people there who care a little about me,
A
and they won't let the poor boy down. Take it!
--------5--5--5---------------5--5--5---------------5--5--5--------------------------
--------5--5--5---------------5--5--5---------------5--5--5--------------------------
--/7--------------7p--5---7-------------7p--5---7-------------7p--5---7p--5----------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------7--7--7-
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---7bu---7bu---7bu---7bu---7bu---7bu---7bu---7bu---7bu---7bu---7bu---7p--5-----------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------7-------
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-----------7--------7--7--7----------------------------------------------------------
---5/-7----------7--7--7--7----------------------------------------------------------
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A D
Sure as you're born they brought me a silk suit, put luggage in my hand.
E A
And I woke up high over Albuquerque, on a jet to the promised land.
A D
Working on a T-bone steak I had a party, flyin' over to the golden state.
E
A
Ah when the pilot told us in thirteen minutes he would set us at the
terminal gate.
A D
Swing low chariot come down easy, taxi to the terminal zone.
E A
Cut your engines and cool your wings, and let me make it to the telephone.
A D
Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia, tidewater four ten o nine.
E
Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin',
A
and the poor boy's on the line.
--------10-------10-------10--------10------10-------10-------10-------10--------10---
---12bu-----12bu-----12bu-----12bu-----12bu-----12bu-----12bu-----12bu-----12bu-------
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-------10--------10-------10---------------------------------7--7--7---------------7--7--7
--12bu-----12bu-----12bu-----12bu---12---12--10---10---------7--7--7---------------7--7--7
---------------------------------------------------------/9------------9p--7---9----------
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------\12---12---10---10---9---9-------------------------------5--5--5--------------5--5--5
--9--------------------------------12---12---10---10-----------5--5--5--------------5--5--5
----------------------------------------------------------/7-------------7p--5---7---------
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------------7bud---7bu--
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A D
Working on a T-bone steak I had a party, flyin' over to the golden state.
E
A
Ah when the pilot told us in thirteen minutes he would set us at the
terminal gate.
A D
Swing low chariot come down easy, taxi to the terminal zone.
E A
Cut your engines and cool your wings, and let me make it to the telephone.
A D
Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia, tidewater four ten o nine.
E
Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin',
A
and the poor boy's on the line.
-------5-5--5-----------5-5--5-------------------------------------------------------------
-------5-5--5-----------5-5--5----------------------------------5--------------------------
---/7----------7p-5--7-----------7--7bud--7bu--7bu--7p--5---7------5bu--------7bud---7bu---
-------------------------------------------------------------------------7-----------------
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--------------------------------5-----------------------------------------------------------
7bu---7bud---7bud---7bu---7bu------7bud---5---7---7bud---5---7bud----------------/9-9-9-9-9-
--------------------------------------------------------------------7-7--7-------/9-9-9-9-9-
--------------------------------------------------------------------7-7--7------------------
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-------------------------------5------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------5---8---10p--8---5---------------------5-----5----------5-5-5
-/9-9-9-9--/9-9--/9-9-9-----------------------------7bu---7---5h--7------7------7---5--5-5-5
-/9-9-9-9--/9-9--/9-9-9---/7----------------------------------------------------------------
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--------------12-------------------------17--15-----------17p--15--------------------------
--12--14--15------14bud--12----------------------17--15------------17--15------------------
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During the song you hear several times this kinda riffs:
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---------------5--- ---------------
------7------------ ---------------
----------/7------- -------7-7-7---
--/7--------------- --/7---7-7-7---
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bud = bend up & down
/ = slide (mostly starting 2 frets before, so /7 = 5 slide up to 7)
Tabbed by Space Guitar
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Solo's Tabbed by Joost van den Berg
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