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Ghost of tom joad Bruce Springsteen
##song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. ##From: jgroce@mail.utexas.edu (Jason Groce)##By Bruce Springsteen##fingerpicked in a repeating pattern, and since I play this by myself I#glad to see this song is in B minor, which allows you to play it on your D#don't include fingerings for this song. There'll standard, as far as my#[Am]Men walkin' long the railroad tracks[C]Goin' someplace there's [Am]no goin' [G]backHighway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridgeHot [Am]soup on a campfire [G]under the [Am]bridgeShelter line stretchin' round the corner[C]Welcome to the [Am]new world [G]orderFamilies sleepin' in their cars in the SouthwestNo [Am]home no job no [G]peace no [Am]restThe [F]highway is alive tonightBut nobody's [C]kiddin' nobody about [G]where it [Am]goesI'm [G]sittin' down here in the campfire light[Am]Searchin' for the [G]ghost of [Am]Tom JoadHe pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bagPreachers lights up a butt and takes a dragWaitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be lastIn a cardboard box 'neath the underpassGot a one-way ticket to the promised landYou got a hole in your belly and a gun in your handSleeping on a pillow of solid rockBathin' in the city aqueductThe highway is alive tonightWhere it's headed everybody knowsI'm sittin' down here in the campfire lightWaitin' on the ghost of Tom JoadNow Tom said, "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guyWherever a hungry newborn baby criesWhere there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the airLook for me Mom I'll be thereWherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to standOr a decent job or a helpin' handWherever somebody's strugglin' to be freeLook in their eyes Mom you'll see me."Well the highway is alive tonightBut nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goesI'm sittin' down here in the campfire lightWith the ghost of old Tom Joad**************************************************************Corrections are more than welcome. Enjoy!Jason Groce - jgroce@mail.utexas.eduPlaywriting, Department of Theatre and Dance**************************************************************
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