Australian Charts:
The Promised Land entered the Kent charts on 7 August 1972 and peaked at #5. It was #40 on the Top 100 of 1972.
Album:
The song is on Rockpile which entered the Kent album charts on 4 September 1972 and peaked at #22.
Songwriter:
Chuck Berry
Producer:
Dave Edmunds
Record label of Australian release:
HMV
BONUS TRACK BELOW: Promised Land by Chuck Berry
Wikipedia:
Rockpile is the first solo album by Dave Edmunds, released in 1972. It is principally focused on remakes of late 1950s and early 1960s hits, with a few new songs included. Edmunds plays almost all the instruments except for bass and backing vocals, which are played by John Williams, Edmunds’ former bandmate in Love Sculpture.
Promised Land is a song lyric written by Chuck Berry to the melody of Wabash Cannonball, an American folk song.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockpile_(album)
Lyrics:
I left my home in Norfolk, Virginia, California on my mind
I straddled that Greyhound and rode him into Raleigh and on across Caroline
We stopped in Charlotte, we bypassed Rock Hill, we never was a minute late
We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown rollin′ out of Georgia State
We had motor trouble that turn into a struggle, halfway across Alabam
And that ‘hound broke down and left us all stranded in downtown Birmingham
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This song is also on our Spotify playlist Bang a Gong – the 70s
Also by Dave Edmunds: I Hear You Knocking
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BONUS TRACK
Promised Land by Chuck Berry entered the Kent charts on 23 January 1965 and peaked at #81.
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