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The Ghost Of Tom Joad easy guitar chords by
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen

1995Country
4.8 (13)
Intro 1
Am
Am

G
Am
Am

Verse 1
Am

Men walking 'long the railroad tracks
C
G

Going someplace, and there's no going back
G

Highway patrol choppers coming up

over the ridge
Am
G
Am

Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
Am

Shelter line stretching 'round the corner
C
G

Welcome to the new world order
G

Families sleeping in the cars in the southwest
Am
G
Am

No home, no job, no peace, no rest
Chorus 1
F

Well the highway is alive tonight
C

But nobody's kidding nobody
Am

about where it goes
G

I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
Am
G
Am

Searching for the ghost of Tom Joad
Verse 2
Am

He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag
C
G

Preacher lights up a butt and he takes a drag
G

Waiting for when the last shall be first

and the first shall be last
Am
G
Am

In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
Am

Got a one-way ticket to the promised land
C

You got a hole in your belly
G

and a gun in your hand
G

Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
Am
G
Am

Bathing in the city aqueduct
Chorus 2
F

The highway is alive tonight
C
G
Am

Where it's headed everybody knows
G

I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
Am
G
Am

Waiting on the ghost of Tom Joad
Solo 1
F
F

C
G
Am

G
Am
Am

Now Tom said,
Verse 3
Am

"Mom, wherever there's a cop beating a guy
C
G

Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
G

Where there's a fight against the blood

and hatred in the air
Am
G
Am

Look for me, Mom, I'll be there
Am

Where there's somebody's fighting

for a place to stand
C
G

A decent job or a helping hand
G

Wherever somebody's struggling to be free
Am
G
Am

Look in their eyes, Mom, you'll see me"
Chorus 3
F

Well the highway is alive tonight
C

But nobody's kidding nobody
G
Am

about where it goes
G

I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
Am
G
Am

With the ghost of old Tom Joad
Outro 1
F
F

C
G
Am

G
G

Am
G
Am

F
F

C
G
Am

G
G

Am
G
Am

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