The Ghost of Tom Joad (Album Version)

Man walks along the railroad track

He's Goin' some place, there's no turnin' back

The Highway

Patrol chopper comin' up over the ridge

Man sleeps by a campfire under the bridge

The shelter line stretchin' around the corner

Welcome to the

New World

OrderFamilies sleepin' in their cars out in the

SouthwestNo job, no home, no peace, no rest,

NO REST!And

The highway is alive tonight

Nobody's foolin' nobody is to where it goes

I'm sitting down here in the campfire light

Searchin' for the

Ghost of Tom

JoadHe pulls his prayer book out of a sleepin' bag

The preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag

He's waitin' for the time when the last shall be first and the first shall be last

In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass

With a one way ticket to the promised land

With a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand

Lookin' for a pillow of solid rock

Bathin' in the cities' aqueducts

And The highway is alive tonight

Nobody's foolin' nobody is to where it goes

I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light

With the Ghost of old

Tom JoadGuitar

SoloNow Tom

Said; "Ma, whenever ya see a cop beatin' a guyWherever a hungry new born baby criesWhereever there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the airLook for me ma'I'll be thereWherever somebodies stuglin' for a place to standFor a decent job or a helpin' handWherever somebody is strugglin' to be freeLook in their eyes ma,You'll see me! (repeat 8 times)And the highway is alive tonightnobody's foolin' nobody is to where it goesI'm sittin' down here in the campfire lightWith the Ghost of Tom Joad.