BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - The Ghost Of Tom Joad lyrics

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Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks<br>Goin' someplace there's no goin' back<br>Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the bridge<br>Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge<br>Shelter line stretchin' 'round the corner<br>Welcome to the new world order<br>Families sleepin' in their cars in the southwest<br>No home no job no peace no rest<br>The highway is alive tonight<br>But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes<br>I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light<br>Searchin' for the ghost of tom joad<br>He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag<br>Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag<br>Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last<br>In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass<br>Got a one-way ticket to the promised land<br>You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand<br>Sleepin' on a pillow of solid rock<br>Bathin' in the city aqueduct<br>The highway is alive tonight<br>Where it's headed everybody knows<br>I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light<br>Waitin' on the ghost of tom joad<br>Now tom said mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy<br>Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries<br>Where there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air<br>Look for me mom I'll be there<br>Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand<br>Or a decent job or a helpin' hand<br>Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free<br>Look in their eyes mom you'll see me.<br>Well the highway is alive tonight<br>But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes<br>I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light<br>With the ghost of old tom joad