Capo 3
Intro: Em G D/F# Em C G Em D/F#
Em
Men walkin’ ‘long the railroad tracks
G D/F#
Goin’ someplace there’s no goin’ back
Highway patrol choppers comin’ up over the ridge
Em
Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
Shelter line stretchin’ round the corner
G D/F#
Welcome to the new world order
Families sleepin’ in their cars in the southwest
Em
No home no job no peace no rest
C
The highway is alive tonight
G Em
But nobody’s kiddin’ nobody about where it goes
D/F#
I’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light
Em
Searchin’ for the ghost of Tom Joad
Em
He pulls prayer book out of his sleeping bag
G D/F#
Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
Waitin’ for when the last shall be first
and the first shall be last
Em
In a cardboard box ‘neath the underpass
Got a one-way ticket to the promised land
G D/F#
You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand
Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
Em
Bathin’ in the city aqueduct
C
The highway is alive tonight
G Em
But nobody’s kiddin’ nobody about where it goes
D/F#
I’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light
Em
Searchin’ for the ghost of Tom Joad
Interlude: C G Em D/F# Em
Em
Now Tom said “Mom, wherever there’s a cop beatin’ a guy
G D/F#
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Where there’s a fight ‘gainst the blood and hatred in the air
Em
Look for me Mom I’ll be there
Wherever there’s somebody fightin’ for a place to stand
G D/F#
Or decent job or a helpin’ hand
Wherever somebody’s strugglin’ to be free
Em
Look in their eyes Mom you’ll see me.”
C
The highway is alive tonight
G Em
But nobody’s kiddin’ nobody about where it goes
D/F#
I’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light
Em
Searchin’ for the ghost of Tom Joad
Outro: C G Em D/F# Em G C Em
Intro: Em G D/F# Em C G Em D/F#
Em
Men walkin’ ‘long the railroad tracks
G D/F#
Goin’ someplace there’s no goin’ back
Highway patrol choppers comin’ up over the ridge
Em
Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
Shelter line stretchin’ round the corner
G D/F#
Welcome to the new world order
Families sleepin’ in their cars in the southwest
Em
No home no job no peace no rest
C
The highway is alive tonight
G Em
But nobody’s kiddin’ nobody about where it goes
D/F#
I’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light
Em
Searchin’ for the ghost of Tom Joad
Em
He pulls prayer book out of his sleeping bag
G D/F#
Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
Waitin’ for when the last shall be first
and the first shall be last
Em
In a cardboard box ‘neath the underpass
Got a one-way ticket to the promised land
G D/F#
You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand
Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
Em
Bathin’ in the city aqueduct
C
The highway is alive tonight
G Em
But nobody’s kiddin’ nobody about where it goes
D/F#
I’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light
Em
Searchin’ for the ghost of Tom Joad
Interlude: C G Em D/F# Em
Em
Now Tom said “Mom, wherever there’s a cop beatin’ a guy
G D/F#
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Where there’s a fight ‘gainst the blood and hatred in the air
Em
Look for me Mom I’ll be there
Wherever there’s somebody fightin’ for a place to stand
G D/F#
Or decent job or a helpin’ hand
Wherever somebody’s strugglin’ to be free
Em
Look in their eyes Mom you’ll see me.”
C
The highway is alive tonight
G Em
But nobody’s kiddin’ nobody about where it goes
D/F#
I’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light
Em
Searchin’ for the ghost of Tom Joad
Outro: C G Em D/F# Em G C Em
