“Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia
Tidewater four ten o nine
Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin'
And the poor boy's on the line”

—  Chuck Berry

"Promised Land" (1964)
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American rock-and-roll musician 1926–2017

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