Promised Land

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Bob Dylan wrote a song called The Man in Long Black Coat. They say it was written about my friend Rabbi Meir Abehsera who influenced Dylan's daughter to become religious. This was really his show and I was the musician that warmed up the crowd. This was his favorite song and he would start dancing wildly and whistling (amazing dancer). You can hear him whistling on the track. This song would put him in the mood and then we would stop and he would speak his words of wisdom to the audience in a whisper. At Chabad they called him the whistler because he would dance and whistle in front of the Lubavitcher Rebbe when he went to visit his Rebbe in the USA

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Bye Bye Babylon
I can't keep leading you on
Though my flesh still melts
At the touch of your hand
It's just not the Promised Land

I'm leaving all of this behind
Nothing here is really mine
Got to find my oasis in the sand
Back in the Promised Land

There's a judge and there's a trial
I'm hoping to exchange my file
If I can prove that
I can walk and I can stand
Within the Promised Land

I'm just a ghost
That's what I've become
Too much to taste
Will make you numb
Got to return
My body to my soul - if I still can
She's waiting in the Promised Land

(Chorus)

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from Ron Wiseman Live, released May 16, 2013
For more on Meir Abehsera here is his blog
www.chabad.org/search/keyword_cdo/kid/1358/jewish/Meir-Michel-Abehsera.htm

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