Springsteen Bruce - Ghost Of Tom Joad Tabs

The Ghost of Tom Joad
Bruce Springsteen

This is the title track of the album.


Bm
Men walkin long the railroad tracks
D                                  D   Dsus2 A        
Goin someplace theres no   goin     back
A
High patrol choppers commin up over the ridge
D                                  Dsus4  D  Bm
Hot soup on a campfire under   the bridge

Shelter line stretchin round the corner
Welcome to the new world order
Families sleepin in their cars in the Southwest
No home no job no peace no rest

                   G           
	The highway is alive tonight
                         D                            Dsus4  D  Bm
 	But it's kiddin nobody about where   it  goes
                   A
	I'm sittin down here in the campfire light
                 D                   Dsus4  D       Bm   
	Searchin for the ghost   of Tom Joad

He pulls a prayer book out of his sleepin bag
Preacher lights up a butt and he 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
Sleepin 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 theres a cop beatin a guy
Wherever a hungry new-born baby cries
Where theres a fight against the blood and hatred in the air
Look for me Mom I'll be there

Wherever theres somebody fightin for a place to stand
Or a decent job or a helpin hand
Wherever somebody's strugglin to be free
Look in there eyes Mom you'll see me"

	Well the highway is alive tonight
	But it's kiddin nobody about where it goes
	I'm sittin down here in the campfire light
	With the ghost of old Tom Joad