I left my home in Norfolk, Virginia, California on my mind 我离开了我的家在弗吉尼亚州诺福克，加州在我心中

I straddled that Greyhound and rode him into Raleigh and on across Caroline í跨越的灰狗，骑他到罗利和跨卡罗琳

We stopped in Charlotte, we by-passed Rock Hill, we never was a minute late 我们在夏洛特停止了，我们绕过石山，我们从来没有迟到一分钟

We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown rollin' out of Georgia State 我们是九十英里外亚特兰大由日落罗林出来佐治亚州

We had motor trouble that turn into a struggle, halfway across Alabam 我们有马达故障就变成一场斗争，横跨半个阿拉巴马

And that hound broke down and left us all stranded in downtown Birmingham. 那猎犬崩溃了，给我们留下了所有滞留在伯明翰市中心。

   

Right away I bought me a through train ticket got across Mississippi clean 我马上给我买直通车票横跨密西西比河干净了

And I was on that midnight flyer out of Birmingham smokin' into New Orleans 我是在午夜的传单了伯明翰戒掉了到新奥尔良

Somebody help me get out of Louisiana just help me get to Houston town 有人帮我拿路易斯安那出来只是帮助我去休斯敦镇

There are people there who care a little 'bout me and won't let the poor boy down 还有人在那里谁照顾一个小​​回合我不会让这个可怜的孩子倒

Sure as you're born they bought me a silk suit put luggage in my hand 当然因为你出生，他们给我买了一条丝绸衣服放行李的我的手

And I woke up hight over Albuquerque on a jet to the Promised land. 我醒来的时候HIGHT在阿尔伯克基的喷射到应许之地。

   

Workin' on a T-bone steak à la carte, flyin' over to the Golden State 日夜不停的在T骨牛排点菜，弗莱在金州

When the pilot told us in 13 minutes he would set us at the terminal gate 当飞行员告诉我们，在13分钟内，他就使我们在终端门

Swing low sweet chariot, come down easy, taxi to the terminal zone 摆动低点甜战车，下来容易，打车到码头区

Cut your engines and cool your wings and let me make it to the telephone 削减你的引擎和冷却你的翅膀，让我给电话

Los Angeles, give me Norfolk, Virginia, Tidewater four-ten-o-nine 洛杉矶，给我的诺福克，弗吉尼亚州，潮水四个10 -O- 9

Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin' and the poor boy's on the line. 告诉乡亲回家，这是应许之地的呼唤和穷小子的就行了。