[00:06.27]I left my home in Norfolk Virginia
[00:09.64]California on my mind
[00:11.48]
[00:12.79]Straddled that Greyhound
[00:14.23]Rode him past Raleigh
[00:15.63]On across Caroline
[00:17.64]
[00:18.76]Stopped in Charlotte
[00:20.12]And bypassed Rock Hill
[00:21.78]And we never was a minute late
[00:23.65]
[00:24.21]We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown
[00:27.78]Rollin' 'cross the Georgia state
[00:29.54]
[00:30.67]We had motor trouble it turned into a struggle
[00:33.72]Half way 'cross Alabam
[00:35.69]
[00:36.81]And that 'hound broke down
[00:38.22]And left us all stranded
[00:39.59]In downtown Birmingham
[00:41.57]
[01:06.66]Run away  I bought me a through train ticket
[01:09.24]Ridin' cross Mississippi clean
[01:12.34]And I was on that midnight flyer out of Birmingham
[01:16.10]Smoking into New Orleans
[01:17.79]
[01:18.97]Somebody help me get out of Louisiana
[01:22.12]Just help me get to Houston town
[01:24.07]
[01:25.13]There's people there who care a little 'bout me
[01:28.06]And they won't let the poor boy down
[01:30.31]
[01:31.24]Sure as you're born
[01:32.82]They bought me a silk suit
[01:34.55]Put luggage in my hands
[01:36.89]And I woke up high over Albuquerque
[01:40.22]On a jet to the promised land