Promised Land

Album: St. Louis to Liverpool (1964)
Charted: 26 41
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Chuck Berry
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Downtown Music Publishing, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 9

  • Kmelub from Margate. FlElvis's version was THE BEST. Meatloaf came close when he covrted it on SNL, but Elvis's version was the nonpareil.
  • Brad from ManahawkinThe Elvis version of this song was played in Men In Black when Tommy Lee Jones' character takes Will Smith through the Lincoln Tunnel.
  • Jennifur Sun from RamonaTony, have to agree about liking Elvis' version better.
  • Will from Rock Hill, ScYeah, you're right Ern, songs like 'Maybellene', 'Thirty Days', 'School Days', 'Havana Moon', 'Back in the USA', 'Sweet Little Sixteen', 'You Can't Catch Me', 'Brown-Eyed Handsome Man' and ALL of his other songs sound like 'Johnny B. Goode'. Listen to his music before you trash it to make Elvis, who never wrote a song, seem better. Chuck influenced nearly every rock guitarist that came after him, so your statement that "Chuck just Blows" is just not true.
  • Ern from Fresno, CaTony is Right On! Elvis blows this tune outta the
    water. Chuck just Blows. Every song sounds like Johnny B. Goode! Stuff it Kevin.
  • Charlie from Bozeman, Mtthe Grateful dead also covered this song playing it live many times.thats how many people came to know this song
  • Ken from Louisville, KyJames Taylor also did a version of this on his "One Man Dog" album
  • Kevin from Reading , PaElvis better than Chuck at one of Chuck's own songs? Tony, are you nuts? Or just deaf. The only person I know who ever cut Chuck at one of his songs was "the Killer" Jerry Lee Lewis, who outdid the maestro on "Little Queenie."
  • Tony from Boston, MaElvis does a much better version in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, I love Chuck.
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