Canebreakers Promised Land lyrics

Take me down through the Cumberland Gap
I got to tell Poor Richard that I got his back
Take off those white robes and never look back
And I'll be walking to the promised land

Lead me down into Bethlehem
I got no reason for the shape that I'm in
Old Wayhab tells me that he's dying again
That he'll be walking to the promised land

Goodnight to that starlight
At the bend in the river where the moonlight shimmers,
We'll be walking to the promised land

Follow me down into New Orleans
Where everybody feels the same, but no one knows what it means
Well, Nervous Charley's finally gonna stand up and speak
And he'll be walking to the promised land


Goodnight to that starlight
At the bend in the river where the moonlight shimmers,
We'll be walking to the promised land

Well I'm going back to the only home I've known
From that black-water river to the Gulf of Mexico
My baby is a-calling and she lets me know
That we've been walking through the promised land
We've been walking through the promised land

Goodnight to that starlight
At the bend in the river where the moonlight shimmers,
We've been walking through the promised land