Intro:Em

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Men walkin' long the railroad tracks,gone someplace there's no comin' back 

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Highway patrol choppers comin' up o'er the ridge,Man sleeps by a campfire  

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under the bridge.Shelter line stretchin' round the corner,welcome to the new 

world order.Family sleepin' in the cars in the southwest,no home no job no peace no rest.

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Chorus:Well the highway is alive tonight,nobody's kiddin nobody about where 

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It goes,I'm sittin here in the campfire light,searchin' for the Ghost of Tom

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Joad.



He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag

Preachers lights up a butt and takes a drag

Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last

In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass

Got a one-way ticket to the Promised Land

You got a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand

Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock

Bathin' in the city aqueduct



The highway is alive tonight

Where it's headed everybody knows

I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light

Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad



Now Tom said, "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy

Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries

Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air

Look for me Mom I'll be there

Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand

Or a decent job or a helpin' hand

Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free

Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me."



Well the highway is alive tonight

But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes

I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light

With the ghost of old Tom Joad ( repeat chorus again)]



With the ghost of old Tom Joad (4x)



Outro:Em