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The Ghost of Tom Joad Chords by Bruce Springsteen

  • Key: Em
  • BPM: 85
  • Capo: no capo

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THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD CHORDS

[Start]

[Intro]

[Verse]
E                                      
 Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks
      G                              D   
Goin' someplace and there's no going back
                                  D             
Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge
E             D                  E     
Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
                                   E     
Shelter line stretchin' 'round the corner
G                    D          
 Welcome to the new world order
         D                                     
Families sleepin' in their car in the southwest
Em                D        E   
No home no job no peace no rest
Em       C                       
Well the highway is alive tonight
                     D                     Em   Em7
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes   
D                                          
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
E                                  
Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad
                                           E  
He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag
G                                        D   
Preacher lights up a butt and he takes a drag
                     D                                              
Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
     E                    D   E        
In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
                                         Em
Got a oneway ticket to the promised land  
                       G                     D   
You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand
                        D         
Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
E              D            
Bathin' in the city aqueduct
Em  C                       
The highway is alive tonight


[Chorus]
G                             E    
 Where it's headed everybody knows
D                                          
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
Em      E      D                
Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad


[Solo]
E Em G D Em Em7 Em Em7
              
G D Em D Em C G Em
          
D Em D Em
     


[Verse]
Em          
Now Tom said
                                     Em 
Mom wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy
         G                          
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
D                                                            
Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air
Em7      D                    Em
Look for me mom I'll be there  
                          Em                           
Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand
          G                D   
Or decent job or a helpin' hand
                               D         
Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free
Em                                   
Look in their eyes momm you'll see me


[Chorus]
C                           
The highway is alive tonight
             G                Em                 
But nobody's  kiddin' nobody about where it goes
D                                          
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
Em                   D       
Waitin' for ghost of Tom Joad
Em C G Gbm Em D Em D
            


[Solo]
Em D Em Gbm7 Em C G Em
              
D Dsus4 Em C G Em D Em7
               
Em Cmaj7 C G Em D Em G
              
C G D Em D Em D Em
          
C G Em D Em G D Em
          
G Gbm7 Em7 D Em G Gbm Em
                


[Outro]

[End]
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