Chords:
{t:Ghost Of Tom Joad, The}
{artist: Bruce Springsteen}
{key: G}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-c6GphpAeY
{c: Make sure you watch the Youtube - esp for line ends}
[Em] Man walkin' long the railroad tracks
[G] Goin' some place there's no going [D] back [D]
Highway [D] patrol choppers comin' up [D] over the ridge [D]
Hot [Em] soup on a campfire [D] under the [Em] bridge [Em]
[Em] Shelter line stretchin' 'round the corner [Em]
[G] Welcome to the new world [D] order [D]
[D] Families sleepin' in their cars in the Southwest [D]
No [Em] home no job no peace no rest [Em]
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Well the [C] highway's alive tonight [C]
But nobody's [G] kiddin' nobody about [D] where it [Em] goes [Em]
I'm [D] sittin' down here in the campfire light [D]
[Em] Searchin' [D] for the ghost of Tom [Em] Joad [Em]
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He pulls a [Em] prayer book out of his sleeping bag [Em]
Preacher [G] lights up a butt and takes a [D] drag [D]
[D] Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last [D]
In a [Em] cardboard box 'neath the [D] under-[Em]pass [Em]
[Em] Got a one-way ticket to the promised land [Em]
You got [G] hole in your belly and a gun in your [D] hand [D]
[D] Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock [D]
[Em] Bathin' in the city [D] aqua-[Em]duct
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Well the [C] highway's alive tonight [C]
[G] Where it's headed [D] everybody [Em] knows
I'm [D] sittin' down here in the campfire light [D]
[Em] Waitin' on the [D] ghost of Tom [Em] Joad
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{c: instrumental simplified}
[Em][C][C][G][D][D][D][Em][C][C][G][D][D][D]
[Em] Now Tom said:
[Em] "Mom, wherever there's cop beatin' a guy [Em]
Wherever a [G] hungry newborn baby [D] cries
[D] Where there's a fight gainst blood and hatred in the air
[Em] Look for me Mom and [D] I'll be [Em] there [Em]
Wherever [Em] somebody fightin' for a place to stand
Or [G] decent job or helping [D] hand [D]
[D] Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free [D]
[Em] Look in their eyes Mom [D] you'll see [Em] me [Em]
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Well the [C] highway's alive tonight [C]
[G] Where it's headed [D] everybody [Em] knows
I'm [D] sittin' down here in the campfire light [D]
[Em] Waitin' on the [D] ghost of Tom [Em] Joad
Yes the [C] highway's alive tonight [C]
[G] Where it's headed [D] everybody [Em] knows
I'm [D] sittin' down here in the campfire light [D]
[Em] Waitin' on the [D] ghost of old Tom [Em] Joad
[Em] Waitin' on the [G] ghost of old Tom [Em] Joad
[Em] Waitin' on the [G] ghost of [D] old Tom [Em] Joad
{eoc}
