The Gost Of Tom Joad

Chords  EADGBe
E|E|--------------|| 

Asus    002230
Cadd9   x32030
A7sus4  x00030
G6      320030
Asus/G  302230
F       133211
C       x32010
Am      x02210
E|E|--------------|| 

Asus
Men walkin' 'long the railroad 
tracks

Cadd9                      A7sus4 
Goin' someplace there's no goin'  
G6
back

G6
Highway patrol choppers comin' up 
over the bridge

Asus                   Asus/G    
Hot soup on a campfire under the 
Asus
bridge


Asus
Shelter line stretchin' 'round the 
corner

Cadd9          A7sus4    G6
Welcome to the new world order

G6
Families sleepin' in their cars in 
the southwest

   Asus           Asus/G   Asus
No home no job no peace no rest


Refrain:

      F
(The) Highway is alive tonight

             C                    
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about 
G6       Am
where it goes

    G6
I'm sittin' down here in the 
campfire light

Continues after the ad
Asus              Asus/G       Asus
Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad


Asus
He pulls a prayer book out of his 
sleeping bag

Cadd9                         
Preacher lights up a butt and 
A7sus4  G6
takes a drag

G6
Waitin' for when the last shall be 
first and the first shall be last

     Asus                     
In a cardboard box 'neath the 
Asus/G   Asus
under-  -pass

      Asus
Got a one-way ticket to the promised
 land

          Cadd9                  
You got a hole in your belly and 
A7sus4      G6
gun in your hand

G6
Sleepin' on a pillow of solid rock

Asus                Asus/G Asus
Bathin' in the city aque-  -duct


Refrain:

          F
(But the) highway is alive tonight

      C                 G6        
(But) where it's headed everybody 
Am
knows

    G6
I'm sittin' down here in the 
campfire light

Asus           Asus/G       Asus
Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad


Refrain (solo without singing):

F, C, G6, Am

Asus/G   Asus (silent part, try to 
listen, how its played)


Asus
wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy

         Cadd9            A7sus4 
wherever a hungry newborn baby   
G6
cries

G6
Where there's a fight against the 
blood and hatred in the air

Asus            Asus/G  Asus
Look for me mom I'll be there


Asus
Wherever there's somebody fightin' 
for a place to stand

     Cadd9           A7sus4  G6
Or a decent job or a helpin' hand

G6
Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be
 free

Asus                   Asus/G     
Look in their eyes mom you'll see 
Asus
me.


Refrain:

          F
(But the) highway is alive tonight

    C                             
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about 
G6       Am
where it goes

G6
I'm sittin' down here in the 
campfire light

Asus              Asus/G  Asus
With the ghost of old Tom Joad