[00:12.642]Men walkin' along the railroad tracks
[00:18.345]Goin' someplace and there's no going back
[00:22.508]Highway patrol, choppers coming up over the ridge
[00:28.500]Hot soup on a campfire, under the bridge
[00:33.472]Shelter line stretching, around the corner
[00:39.120]Welcome to the New World Order
[00:43.606]Families sleeping in the cars in the Southwest
[00:49.241]No home, no job, no peace, no rest
[00:54.074]Well, the highway is alive tonight
[00:58.951]But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
[01:04.496]I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
[01:10.231]Searching for the ghost of Tom Joad
[01:14.507]He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag
[01:19.841]Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
[01:24.199]Waiting for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
[01:30.353]In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
[01:35.117]Got a one-way ticket to the promised land
[01:40.371]You got a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand
[01:45.470]Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
[01:50.996]Bathing in the city aqueduct
[01:55.442]The highway is alive tonight
[02:01.202]Where it's headed, everybody knows
[02:05.862]Sitting down here in the campfire light
[02:11.415]Waiting on the ghost of Tom Joad
[02:30.197]Tom said
[02:31.881]"Mama, whenever there's a cop beating a guy
[02:37.506]Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
[02:42.653]There's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air
[02:48.385]Look for me, mom, I'll be there
[02:52.841]There's somebody fighting for a place to stand
[02:58.403]A decent job or a helping hand
[03:02.883]Where there's somebody struggling to be free
[03:08.659]Look in their eyes, mom, you'll see me"
[03:13.289]The highway is alive tonight
[03:17.976]But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
[03:23.631]Sitting down here in the campfire light
[03:28.945]With the ghost of ol' Tom Joad