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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN lyrics : "The Ghost Of Tom Joad"

Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks
Goin' someplace there's no goin' back
Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge


Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
Shelter line stretchin' 'round the corner

Welcome to the new world order
Families sleepin' in their cars in the Southwest
No home no job no peace no rest


The highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes

I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad


He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag
Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last

In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
Got a one-way ticket to the promised land
You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand

Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
Bathin' in the city aqueduct


The highway is alive tonight
Where it's headed everybody knows
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light

Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad

Now Tom said "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy

Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air
Look for me Mom I'll be there

Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand
Or decent job or a helpin' hand
Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free

Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me."

Well the highway is alive tonight

But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of old Tom Joad

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