Key: D major•
Verse 1
the Grapes of Wrath.
Maybe you remember seeing that
moving picture.
The folks back around
Oklahoma and Arkansas,
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parts of Texas and Nebraska and Kansas
all got dusted out of their homes
back in the late 20s and early 30s,
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and here's the story about it.
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Tom Joad got out of the old McAllister pen,
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After four long years on a
Tom Joad come a -walkin'
down the road.
The poor boy Tom Joad
come a -walkin' down the road.
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Tom Joad, he met a truck -drivin' man,
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It was there that he caught him a -ridin',
On a charge to call home his side,
On a charge to call home his side.
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Truck rolled away in a cloud of dust,
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Tommy turned his face towards home,
And he found that his family,
they was gone,
And poor boy,
he found that his family was gone.
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And he found his daddy's hat.
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Found little Muley and Muley said,
They'd been tractored
out by the cats.
Tom's entractored out by the cats.
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He went on down to the neighbor's farm,
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Took preacher Casey
And his mammy said, got to get away.
Tom, his mammy said, we got to get away.
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But Grandpa Joad didn't cry.
And said, I'm stickin'
with my farm till I die.
I'm stayin' with the farm till I die.
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But Grandpa Joe did die
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Buried Grandpa Joe on the
side of the road
Buried Grandma on the California side
Buried Grandma on the California side
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And it looked like the promised land,
There was work for every single hand,
They thought, work for every single hand.
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The Joes rolled into a jungle camp,
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It was there that they cooked them a stew.
Said, we'd like to have some too,
yes, we'd like to have some too.
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A deputy sheriff fired loose at a man
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And he shot a woman in the back
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But before he could take his aim again,
It was Preacher Casey dropped
him in his tracks,
good boy, Preacher Casey
dropped him in his tracks.
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and he met Tom Jones by the old river bridge,
and these few words he did say,
prayed to Casey, these few
Two words he did say,
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Preached about the rich and the poor,
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Us workin' folks has got
to get together,
Cause we ain't any chance anymore,
God knows we ain't got
a chance anymore.
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To the bridge where the water runs down.
And they laid Preacher
Casey on the ground.
Poor Casey, they laid Preacher
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Casey on the ground.
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and he hit him over the head.
and left a deputy and a
preacher line dead.
Two men and a preacher
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and a deputy line dead.
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And he woke her up out of bed,
And he said, what preacher Casey said,
Tom Joe,
He said, what preacher Casey said,
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Everybody might be just one big soul,
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Well, it looks that way to me.
That's where I'm a -gonna be.
Ma, that's where I'm a -gonna be.
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Wherever men are fight
That's where I'm gonna be,
That's where I'm gonna
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be.
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