The New Timer-Bruce Springsteen

[ti:The New Timer(Album Version)] [ar:Bruce Springsteen] [al:The Ghost Of Tom Joad] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The New Timer - Bruce Springsteen [00:07.75]He rode the rails since the Great Depression [00:14.69]Fifty years out on the skids [00:21.44]He said "You don't cross nobody [00:28.69]You'll be all right out here kid " [00:35.75]Left my family in Pennsylvania [00:42.69]Searchin' for work I hit the road [00:49.82]I met Frank in East Texas [00:56.88]In a freight yard blown through with snow [01:03.44]From New Mexico to Colorado [01:10.75]California to the sea [01:17.75]Frank he showed me the ropes sir [01:24.63]Just till I could get back on my feet [01:31.25]I hoed sugar beets outside of Firebaugh [01:38.50]I picked the peaches from the Marysville trees [01:44.91]They bunked us in a barn just like animals [01:52.51]Me and a hundred others just like me [02:06.75]We split up come the springtime [02:13.69]I never seen Frank again [02:20.25]'Cept one rainy night he blew by me on a grainer [02:27.76]Shouted my name and disappeared in the rain and wind [02:35.00]They found him shot dead outside of Stockton [02:41.72]His body lyin' on a muddy hill [02:48.85]Nothin' taken nothin' stolen [02:55.63]Somebody killin' just to kill [03:10.07]Late that summer I was rollin' through the plains of Texas [03:17.13]A vision passed before my eyes [03:24.30]A small house sittin' trackside [03:31.30]With the glow of the savior's beautiful light [03:38.36]A woman stood cookin' in the kitchen [03:45.23]Kid sat at a table with his old man [03:52.55]Now I wonder does my son miss me [03:59.74]Does he wonder where I am [04:13.93]Tonight I pick my campsite carefully [04:20.82]Outside the Sacramento yard [04:28.00]Gather some wood and light a fire [04:34.99]In the early winter dark [04:41.62]Wind whistling cold I pull my coat around me [04:48.86]Heat some coffee and stare out into the black night [04:55.68]I lie awake I lie awake sir [05:02.86]With my machete by my side [05:10.80]My Jesus your gracious love and mercy [05:17.24]Tonight I'm sorry could not fill my heart [05:27.74]Like one good rifle [05:31.55]And the name of who I ought to kill