The Ghost Of Tom Joad chords by Eugene Brosnan

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Verse 1
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Men walk along the railroad tracks
C 
Going someplace and there's
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no coming back
Highway patrol choppers
coming up over the ridge
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Hot soup on  a campfire
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Am 
un der the bridge
Shelter lines stretching around the corner
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G 
Welcome to the new world order
The family sleeping in the
car in the southwest
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G 
Am 
With no home, no job, no peace, no rest
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The highway's alive tonight
Am 
Where it's heading, everybody knows
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Sittin' down here by the
campfire light
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G 
Searchin' for the ghost
Am 
of Tom and Joe
He pulls a prayer book out
of a sleeping bag
C 
Preacher lights up a bud
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and he takes a drag
Waitin' for when the last shall be first
and the first shall be last
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G 
In a cardboard box meet the underpass
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You got a one -way ticket
to the promised land
C 
You got a hole in your belly
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and a gun in your hand
Sleepin' on a pillow of solid rock
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Am 
Bathing in the city's aqueduct
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The highway is alive tonight
Am 
Nobody's kidding nobody
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Am 
about where it's going
G 
Sitting down here by the campfire light
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G 
Am 
Waiting on the ghost of Tom Jones
Tom says, Mom,
wherever there's a cop
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Am 
beatin' a guy
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Wherever a  hungry new
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G 
born baby cries
Where there's a fight
against the blood
and the hatred in the air
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Look for me, Mom,
and I'll be there
Wherever somebody's fighting
for a place to stand
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G 
Or a decent job or a helping hand
Wherever somebody's
struggling to be free
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G 
Look in their eyes, mo m,
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and you'll see me
F 
The highway's alive tonight
Am 
Where it's heading,
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Am 
everybody knows
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Sittin' down here by the candlelight
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G 
Am 
With the ghost of old Tom and Joe
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The highway's alive tonight
Am 
Nobody's kidding nobody
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Am 
about where it's going
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We're sittin' down here
by the campfire light
Am 
With the ghost of old Tom Joe