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The Promised Land

by David Lindley

on Cooder / Lindley Family Live At The Vienna Opera House (1995)

Promised Land
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Standing on the corner
So very well dressed
And shoes on my feet
I got 5 cents in my pocket yeah
And I got no place to sleep

Everbody that pass I bye
Some of them stop and stare
One of they come up and bother I
Says I must move away from here

He say I look so suspious
He said I looked like a thief
All because my hair is so natty natty
And my head is
so picky picky O


-Chorus-
Oh oh Ja ah
Oh yeah Ja ah
Trying to find a way to the Promised Land
Will you take My hand?

Oh oh Ja ah
Oh Yeah ja ah
Trying to find a way to the Promised Land
Will you take my hand

-Solo-

Here comes a sport
Used to know from school days
Now he work in a bank
He takes one look and when he see I
He walks to the other side

-Chorus-
Oh oh Ja ah
Oh yeah Ja ah
Trying to find a way to the Promised Land
Will you take My hand?

Oh oh Ja ah
Oh Yeah ja ah
Trying to find a way to the Promised Land
Will you Take my hand

-Solo-

He sed to pull my head
Now he pull it no more
Whats so wrong with that
Some like long short Some Like
and I like It Not

I left it go rot natty natty natty
Like the root of a tree
All creatures of the ground
They like to come around
So everyone will see them

-Chorus-
Oh oh Ja ah
Oh yeah Ja ah
Trying to find a way to the Promised Land
Will you take My hand?

Oh oh Ja ah
Oh Yeah ja ah
Trying to find a way to the Promised Land
Will you Take my hand

Trying to find a way to the Promised Land
Will you Take my hand


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