The Ghost of Tom Joad

The Ghost of Tom Joad Lyrics

Song The Ghost of Tom Joad
Artist Bruce Springsteen
Album Songs Inspired By Literature: Chapter One
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[00:13.47] Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks
[00:18.94] Goin' someplace there's no goin' back
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[00:23.12] Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge
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[00:29.37] Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
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[00:34.12] Shelter line stretchin' 'round the corner
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[00:39.68] Welcome to the new world order
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[00:44.68] Families sleepin' in their cars in the Southwest
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[00:49.93] No home no job no peace no rest
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[00:54.93] The highway is alive tonight
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[00:59.68] But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
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[01:05.24] I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
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[01:10.74] Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad
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[01:15.37] He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag
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[01:20.43] Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
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[01:24.81] Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
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[01:31.18] In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
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[01:35.87] Got a one-way ticket to the promised land
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[01:41.12] You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand
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[01:46.06] Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
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[01:51.56] Bathin' in the city aqueduct
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[01:56.18] The highway is alive tonight
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[02:01.74] Where it's headed everybody knows
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[02:06.49] I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
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[02:11.93] Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad
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[02:30.81] Now Tom said "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy
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[02:38.06] Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
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[02:43.31] Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air
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[02:48.87] Look for me Mom I'll be there
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[02:53.24] Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand
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[02:59.18] Or decent job or a helpin' hand
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[03:03.74] Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free
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[03:09.18] Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me."
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[03:13.75] Well the highway is alive tonight
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[03:18.62] But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
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[03:24.00] I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
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[03:29.43] With the ghost of old Tom Joad
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