The Ghost of Tom Joad-The Hit Co.

[ti:The Ghost of Tom Joad] [ar:The Hit Co.] [al:Long Live the Boss: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen Vol. 2 (1986-1995] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ghost of Tom Joad (汤姆周的灵魂) - The Hit Co. (热歌公司) [00:04.28]Men walking 'long the railroad tracks [00:16.54]Going someplace and there's no going back [00:22.98]Highway patrol choppers coming up over the ridge [00:28.03]Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge [00:33.47]Shelter line stretching 'round the corner [00:37.96]Welcome to the new world order [00:43.26]Families sleeping in their cars in the southwest [00:48.68]No home, no job, no peace, no rest [00:54.04]Well the highway is alive tonight [00:59.14]But nobody's kidding nobody about where it goes [01:05.05]I'm sitting down here in the campfire light [01:09.17]Searching for the ghost of Tom Joad [01:15.03]He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag [01:19.22]Preacher lights up a butt and he takes a drag [01:24.69]Waiting for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last [01:29.41]In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass [01:34.43]Got a one-way ticket to the promised land [01:39.53]You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand [01:45.20]Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock [01:50.28]Bathing in the city aqueduct [01:55.30]And the highway is alive tonight [02:01.38]Where it's headed everybody knows [02:06.09]I'm sitting down here in the campfire light [02:11.88]Waiting on the ghost of Tom Joad [02:16.89]Tom said, "Mom, wherever there's a cop beating a guy [02:36.98]Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries [02:42.19]Where there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air [02:46.90]Look for me, Mom, I'll be there [02:53.50]Where there's somebody fighting for a place to stand [02:57.86]Or a decent job or a helping hand [03:03.06]Wherever somebody's struggling to be free [03:08.41]Look in their eyes, Mom, you'll see me" [03:13.38]The highway is alive tonight [03:18.12]But nobody's kidding nobody about where it goes [03:21.67]I'm sitting down here in the campfire light [03:28.06]With the ghost of old Tom Joad