The Ghost of Tom Joad

The Ghost of Tom Joad Lyrics

Song The Ghost of Tom Joad
Artist Bruce Springsteen
Album High Hopes
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[00:23.42] Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks
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[00:28.88] Goin' someplace there's no goin' back
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[00:33.41] Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge
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[00:39.37] Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
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[00:44.57] Shelter line stretchin' round the corner
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[00:50.35] Welcome to the new world order
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[00:55.15] Families sleepin' in their cars in the southwest
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[01:00.90] No home no job no peace no rest
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[01:05.79] The highway is alive tonight
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[01:10.80] But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
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[01:16.61] I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
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[01:22.42] Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad
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[01:35.59] He pulls prayer book out of his sleeping bag
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[01:40.98] Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
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[01:45.64] Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
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[01:51.93] In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
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[01:56.77] Got a one-way ticket to the promised land
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[02:01.97] You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand
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[02:07.56] Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
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[02:13.20] Bathin' in the city aqueduct
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[02:18.24] The highway is alive tonight
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[02:23.87] But where it's headed everybody knows
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[02:28.69] I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
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[02:34.48] Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad
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[03:47.07] Now Tom said
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[03:51.36] 'Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy
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[03:56.69] Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
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[04:02.08] Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air
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[04:08.15] Look for me Mom I'll be there
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[04:12.65] Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand
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[04:18.44] Or decent job or a helpin' hand
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[04:23.53] Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free
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[04:29.39] Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me.'
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[04:34.20] The highway is alive tonight
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[04:39.86] But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
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[04:44.85] I'm sittin' downhere in the campfire light
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[04:50.65] With the ghost of old Tom Joad
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[04:55.41] Well The highway is alive tonight
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[05:00.37] But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
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[05:05.95] I'm sittin' downhere in the campfire light
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[05:11.83] With the ghost of old Tom Joad
[05:14.75] With the ghost of old Tom Joad
[05:17.47] With the ghost of old Tom Joad
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