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Cisse Häkkinen – Promised Land Chords on Piano & Ukulele

ChordsC F G

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[Intro]
C    C

[Verse]
C
Left my home in Norfolk, Virginia,
                 F
California on my mind
G
I straddled that Greyhound,
 rode him into Raleigh,
                  C
and on across Caroline
C
We stopped in Charlotte but 
bypassed Rock Hill,
                          F
and we never was a minute late
G
We was ninety miles out of
 Atlanta by sundown,
                          C
rollin' out of Georgia state

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[Verse]
C
Right away, I bought me a 
through-train ticket,
                         F
right 'cross Mississippi clean
G
And I was on that midnight 
flyer out of Birmingham
                   C
smoking into New Orleans
C
Somebody help me get out of Louisiana
                               F
just to help me get to Houston Town
G
There are people there who care
 a little about me
                                C
and they won't let the poor boy down
C      F
G      C   (2 X)

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[Verse]
C
Working on a T-bone steak a la carte
                          F
flying over to the Golden State
G
When the pilot told us in thirteen minutes
                                C
he would set us at the terminal gate
C
Swing low chariot come down easy
                     F
taxi to the terminal zone
G
Cut your engines and cool your wings
                              C
and let me make it to the telephone

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[Outro]
C
We had motor trouble, 
it turned into a struggle,
                   F
half way 'cross Alabam,
G
And that 'hound broke down and 
left us all stranded
                   C
in downtown Birmingham
C      F
G      C

How to play Promised Land: key, chords and progression

This is the chords of Promised Land by Cisse Häkkinen on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard.

Promised Land by Cisse Häkkinen is in the key of C major (no sharps or flats). The song uses 3 chords: C, F and G.

Listen for C – F – G – C (I – IV – V – I in C major), the I–IV–V–I, the backbone of gospel, blues and folk: the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is doh – fah – soh – doh. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 3rd fret and play the shapes A, D, E (100% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 67% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.