The Ghost of Tom Joad

Accordi The Ghost of Tom Joad

Intro:
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Men walking along the railroad tracks
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Going someplace and there's no going back
                       
Highway patrol choppers coming up over the ridge
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Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge

Shelter line stretching around the corner
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Welcome to the new world order
                                    
Families sleeping in the cars in the southwest
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No home, no job, no peace, no rest

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Well, the highway is alive tonight
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But nobody's kidding nobody about where it goes
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I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
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Searching for the ghost of Tom Joad

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He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag
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Preacher lights up a butt and he takes a drag
                                 
Waiting for when the last shall be first 
         
and the first shall be last
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In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
                                      
Got a one-way ticket to the promised land
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You got a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand
                                 
Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
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Bathing in the city aqueduct

    SOL
The highway is alive tonight
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Where it's headed, everybody knows
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I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
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Waiting on the ghost of Tom Joad

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Now Tom said, "Mom, 
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wherever there's a cop beating a guy
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Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
                   
Where there's a fight against the blood 
 
and hatred in the air
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Look for me, Mom, I'll be there

Wherever somebody's fighting for a place to stand
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Or a decent job or a helping hand
                               
Wherever somebody's struggling to be free
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Look in their eyes, Ma, and you'll see me"

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Well, the highway is alive tonight
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But nobody's kidding nobody about where it goes
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I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
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With the ghost of old Tom Joad

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## Credits

Autore: SPRINGSTEEN BRUCE Copyright: © SONY MUSIC PUBLISHING