[ti:The Ghost of Tom Joad] [ar:Bruce Springsteen] [al:High Hopes] [by:lrc.d4321.com]
[00:23.420] Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks [00:28.880] Goin' someplace there's no goin' back [00:33.410] Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge [00:39.370] Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge [00:44.570] Shelter line stretchin' round the corner [00:50.350] Welcome to the new world order [00:55.150] Families sleepin' in their cars in the southwest [01:00.900] No home no job no peace no rest [01:05.790] The highway is alive tonight [01:10.800] But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes [01:16.610] I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light [01:22.420] Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad [01:35.590] He pulls prayer book out of his sleeping bag [01:40.980] Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag [01:45.640] Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last [01:51.930] In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass [01:56.770] Got a one-way ticket to the promised land [02:01.970] You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand [02:07.560] Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock [02:13.200] Bathin' in the city aqueduct [02:18.240] The highway is alive tonight [02:23.870] But where it's headed everybody knows [02:28.690] I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light [02:34.480] Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad [03:47.070] Now Tom said [03:51.360] 'Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy [03:56.690] Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries [04:02.080] Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air [04:08.150] Look for me Mom I'll be there [04:12.650] Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand [04:18.440] Or decent job or a helpin' hand [04:23.530] Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free [04:29.390] Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me.' [04:34.200] The highway is alive tonight [04:39.860] But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes [04:44.850] I'm sittin' downhere in the campfire light [04:50.650] With the ghost of old Tom Joad [04:55.410] Well The highway is alive tonight [05:00.370] But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes [05:05.950] I'm sittin' downhere in the campfire light [05:11.830] With the ghost of old Tom Joad [05:14.750] With the ghost of old Tom Joad [05:17.470] With the ghost of old Tom Joad