The Ghost of Tom Joad

The Ghost of Tom Joad Lyrics

Song The Ghost of Tom Joad
Artist Solas
Album The Turning Tide
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[00:24.94] Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks
[00:30.26] Goin' someplace and there's nowhere to go back
[00:35.01] Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge
[00:40.77] Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
[00:46.41] Shelter line stretchin' round the corner
[00:51.81] Welcome to the new world order
[00:56.71] Families sleepin' in their cars in the southwest
[01:02.41] No home no job no peace no rest
[01:06.02]
[01:08.39] The highway is alive tonight
[01:12.94] Nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
[01:18.22] I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
[01:23.77] Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad
[01:27.16]
[01:34.70] Takes a prayer book out of his sleeping bag
[01:39.81] Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
[01:45.13] He waits for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
[01:50.77] 'neath a cardboard box in the underpass
[01:56.61] You've got a one-way ticket to the promised land
[02:00.95] You've got a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand
[02:07.54] Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
[02:12.66] Bathin' in the city aqueduct
[02:16.37]
[02:18.01] The highway is alive tonight
[02:23.59] But where it's headed everybody knows
[02:28.79] I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
[02:34.16] Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad
[02:37.94]
[03:01.53] "Whenever there's a cop beatin' a guy
[03:06.33] Whenever a hungry newborn baby cries
[03:11.90] Where there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air
[03:17.29] Just look for me and I'll be there
[03:22.50] Wherever there's somebody waitin' for a place to stand
[03:27.54] Or a decent job or a helpin' hand
[03:33.45] Wherever there's somebody strugglin' to be free
[03:39.07] Just look in their eyes and you'll see me"
[03:43.06]
[03:44.64] The highway is alive tonight
[03:49.50] Nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
[03:55.31] I'm sittin' downhere in the campfire light
[04:00.66] Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad
[04:04.86]
[04:06.29] The highway is alive tonight
[04:10.81] Nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
[04:16.54] I'm sittin' downhere in the campfire light
[04:22.04] With the ghost of old Tom Joad
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