The Ghost of Tom Joad-Bruce Springsteen

[ti:The Ghost of Tom Joad] [ar:Bruce Springsteen] [al:High Hopes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen [00:23.44]Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks [00:26.01] [00:28.81]Goin' someplace there's no goin' back [00:31.65] [00:33.34]Highway patrol choppers [00:34.65]Comin' up over the ridge [00:36.73] [00:39.36]Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge [00:42.30] [00:44.49]Shelter line stretchin' [00:45.93]'Round the corner [00:47.30] [00:50.24]Welcome to the new world order [00:53.24] [00:55.11]Families sleepin' in their cars [00:56.71]In the Southwest [00:58.27] [01:00.90]No home no job no peace no rest [01:03.71] [01:05.71]Well the highway is alive tonight [01:08.66] [01:10.79]But nobody's kiddin' nobody [01:12.96]About where it goes [01:15.22] [01:16.53]I'm sittin' down here [01:17.73]In the campfire light [01:19.80] [01:22.42]Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad [01:25.78] [01:35.59]He pulls a prayer book out [01:36.97]Of his sleeping bag [01:38.47] [01:41.04]Preacher lights up a butt [01:42.66]And takes a drag [01:44.29] [01:45.47]Waitin' for when the last shall be first [01:47.91]And the first shall be last [01:49.79] [01:51.91]In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass [01:54.79] [01:56.72]Got a one-way ticket [01:58.04]To the promised land [01:59.72] [02:02.35]You got a hole in your belly [02:04.04]And gun in your hand [02:05.73] [02:07.60]Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock [02:10.17] [02:13.23]Bathin' in the city aqueduct [02:15.73] [02:18.10]Well the highway is alive tonight [02:20.85] [02:23.98]Where it's headed everybody knows [02:26.66] [02:28.67]I'm sittin' down here [02:29.91]In the campfire light [02:31.67] [02:34.54]Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad [02:37.35] [03:46.79]Now Tom said [03:47.85] [03:51.22]"Mom wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy [03:54.23] [03:56.67]Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries [04:00.23] [04:01.92]Where there's a fight [04:02.53]'Gainst the blood and hatred in the air [04:04.98] [04:08.05]Look for me Mom I'll be there [04:10.80] [04:12.61]Wherever there's somebody fightin' [04:14.17]For a place to stand [04:15.61] [04:18.36]Or decent job or a helpin' hand [04:21.36] [04:23.30]Wherever somebody's strugglin' [04:25.16]To be free [04:26.72] [04:29.34]Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me " [04:32.44] [04:34.18]Well the highway is alive tonight [04:37.28] [04:40.16]Where it's headed everybody knows [04:42.84] [04:44.79]I'm sittin' down here [04:46.16]In the campfire light [04:47.94] [04:50.80]With the ghost of old Tom Joad [04:53.38] [04:55.45]Well the highway is alive tonight [04:58.57] [05:00.40]But nobody's kiddin' nobody about [05:02.78]Where it goes [05:04.66] [05:05.91]I'm sittin' down here [05:07.22]In the campfire light [05:08.85] [05:11.80]With the ghost of old Tom Joad [05:14.80]With the ghost of old Tom Joad [05:17.61]With the ghost of old Tom Joad