Tom Joad Blues - Part 1-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Tom Joad Blues - Part 1] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Backup the Best of Woody Guthrie] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Tom Joad Blues - Part 1 - Woody Guthrie [00:25.13]Tom Joad got out of the old McAlester Pen; [00:28.85] [00:29.76]There he got his parole [00:32.25] [00:33.29]After four long years on a man killing charge [00:36.77] [00:37.41]Tom Joad come a-walkin' down the road poor boy [00:40.87] [00:41.40]Tom Joad come a-walkin' down the road [00:44.18] [00:45.41]Tom Joad he met a truck driving man; [00:48.84] [00:49.94]There he caught him a ride [00:52.54] [00:53.34]He said "I just got loose from McAlester Pen [00:56.61] [00:57.29]On a charge called homicide [00:59.49] [01:01.15]A charge called homicide " [01:03.31] [01:05.04]That truck rolled away in a cloud of dust; [01:08.56] [01:09.40]Tommy turned his face toward home [01:11.69] [01:12.91]He met Preacher Casey and they had a little drink [01:16.75]But they found that his family they was gone [01:19.42] [01:20.69]He found that his family they was gone [01:23.34] [01:24.60]He found his mother's old fashion shoe [01:27.88] [01:29.10]Found his daddy's hat [01:31.19] [01:32.42]And he found little Muley and Muley said [01:35.74] [01:36.37]"They've been tractored out by the cats [01:39.08] [01:40.25]They've been tractored out by the cats " [01:42.99] [01:45.09]Tom Joad walked down to the neighbor's farm [01:48.56] [01:49.38]Found his family [01:51.35] [01:52.95]They took Preacher Casey and loaded in a car [01:56.37] [01:56.90]And his mother said "We've got to get away " [01:59.52] [02:00.69]His mother said "We've got to get away " [02:03.26] [02:05.45]Now the twelve of the Joads made a mighty heavy load; [02:08.88] [02:09.56]But Grandpa Joad did cry [02:11.92] [02:13.24]He picked up a handful of land in his hand [02:17.09]Said: "I'm stayin' with the farm till I die [02:19.66] [02:20.87]Yes I'm stayin' with the farm till I die " [02:23.48] [02:25.49]They fed him short ribs and coffee and soothing syrup; [02:29.15] [02:29.67]And Grandpa Joad did die [02:32.17] [02:33.41]They buried Grandpa Joad by the side of the road [02:37.11] [02:37.74]Grandma on the California side [02:40.13] [02:41.01]They buried Grandma on the California side [02:43.63] [02:45.96]They stood on a mountain and they looked to the west [02:49.71]And it looked like the promised land [02:52.09] [02:53.60]That bright green valley with a river running through [02:57.44]There was work for every single hand they thought [03:01.28]There was work for every single hand