The Ghost of Tom Joad / [discussion] / [California] chords by
Bruce Springsteen
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Key: B minor•
Verse 1
Bm
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Bm
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Men walking 'long
the railroad tracks
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Going someplace,
A
A

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there's no going back
Highway patrol choppers
coming up over the ridge
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Hot soup on a campfire
under the bridge
Shelter line stretching
'round the corner
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D

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A
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Welcome to the new world order
Families sleeping in the
cars in the southwest
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No home, no job, no peace, no rest
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Well the highway
Verse 2
is alive tonight
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But nobody's kidding nobody
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about where it goes
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I'm sitting down here in the
campfire light
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Searching for the ghost of Tom Joad
Verse 3
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He pulls a prayer book out
of his sleeping bag
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D

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Preacher lights up a butt
A
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and he takes a drag
Waiting for when the last shall be
first and the first shall be last
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In a cardboard box 'neath
the underpass
You got a one- way ticket
to the promised land
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D

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You got a hole in your belly and
A
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a gun in your hand
Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
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Bathing in the city's aqueduct
Verse 4
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Go!
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Well the highway is alive tonight
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Bm
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Where it's headed everybody knows
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I'm sitting down here
in the campfire light
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G
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Waiting on the ghost of Tom Joad
Verse 5
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G

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D
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A
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Bm
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2

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Bm
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Now Tom said, "Mom,
wherever there's a cop beating a guy
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Wherever a hungry newborn
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A

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baby cries
Where there's a fight against the
blood and hatred in the air
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Look for me, Mom,
I'll be there
Verse 6
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Wherever somebody's fighting
for a place to stand
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Or a decent job or a helping hand
Wherever somebody's
struggling to be free
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Look in their eyes,
Ma, and you'll see me"
Yeah!
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The highway
Verse 7
is alive tonight
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Bm
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Where it's headed everybody knows
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I'm sitting down here
in the campfire light
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G
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With the ghost of old Tom Joad
Outro 1
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Bm
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Bm
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D
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Bm
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