The Ghost of Tom Joad-Bruce Springsteen

[ti:The Ghost Of Tom Joad] [ar:Bruce Springsteen] [al:The Essential Bruce Springsteen] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen [00:13.51]Men walkin long the railroad tracks [00:19.18]Goin someplace there's no goin back [00:23.29]Highway patrol choppers comin up over the bridge [00:29.17]Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge [00:34.28]Shelter line stretchin round the corner [00:40.03]Welcome to the new world order [00:44.35]Families sleepin in their cars in the southwest [00:50.32]No home no job no peace no rest [00:55.01]The highway is alive tonight [00:59.93]But nobodys kiddin nobody about where it goes [01:05.33]I'm sittin down here in the campfire light [01:10.79]Searchin for the ghost of tom joad [01:15.51]He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag [01:20.78]Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag [01:24.98]Waitin for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last [01:31.32]In a cardboard box neath the underpass [01:35.91]Got a one way ticket to the promised land [01:41.12]You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand [01:46.15]Sleepin on a pillow of solid rock [01:51.67]Bathin in the city aqueduct [01:56.34]The highway is alive tonight [02:02.02]Where it's headed everybody knows [02:06.57]I'm sittin down here in the campfire light [02:11.97]Waitin on the ghost of tom joad [02:31.00]Now tom said mom wherever there's a cop beatin a guy [02:38.19]Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries [02:43.43]Where there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air [02:49.19]Look for me mom I'll be there [02:53.40]Wherever there's somebody fightin for a place to stand [02:59.28]Or a decent job or a helpin hand [03:03.76]Wherever somebodys strugglin to be free [03:09.41]Look in their eyes mom youll see me [03:13.95]Well the highway is alive tonight [03:18.33]But nobodys kiddin nobody about where it goes [03:24.10]I'm sittin down here in the campfire light [03:29.68]With the ghost of old tom joad