The Ghost of Tom Joad Chords by Bruce Springsteen

[Start]

[Intro]
Bm A Bm                                      
■  ■ ■  Men walking 'long the railroad tracks
D                                A   
Going someplace there's no going back
A                                               
Highway patrol choppers coming up over the ridge
Bm                                     
Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
        Bm                               
Shelter line stretching 'round the corner
               D   A          
Welcome to the new world order
                         A                    
Families sleeping in the cars in the southwest


[Verse]
           D                    Bm
No home no job no peace no rest ■ 
         G                       
Well the highway is alive tonight
             D                    A        Bm  
But nobody's kidding nobody about where it goes
A                                            
■ I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
Bm                                    
■  Searching for the ghost of Tom Joad
Bm                                               
■  He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag
D                                        A   
Preacher lights up a butt and he takes a drag
                                   A                                
Waiting for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
               Bm7        A   Bm       
In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
                               Bm           
You got a oneway ticket to the promised land
          D                        A               
You got a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand
                              A   
Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock


[Chorus]
Bm                               
■  Bathing in the city's aqueduct
            G                       
Go Well the highway is alive tonight
D                                 Bm
Where it's headed everybody knows ■ 
Bm7         A                              
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
Bm             A        Bm      
Waiting on the ghost of Tom Joad
Bm7 G D A Bm A Bm7
■   ■ ■ ■ ■  ■ ■  


[Verse]
             Bm                                         
Now Tom said ■  Mom wherever there's a cop beating a guy
                  D            A    
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
                      A                
Against the blood and hatred in the air
Bm          A           Bm   
Look for me Mom I'll be there
                                            Bm   
Wherever somebody's fighting for a place to stand
D                              A   
■ Or a decent job or a helping hand
         A                               
Wherever somebody's struggling to be free


[Chorus]
Bm                        A            
Look in their eyes Ma and you'll see me
Bm       G                       
Yeah The highway is alive tonight
                  D               Bm
Where it's headed everybody knows ■ 
    A                                      
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
Bm                A       Bm  
With the ghost of old Tom Joad


[Solo]
G D Bm7 A Bm7 Bm Bm7 G
■ ■ ■   ■ ■   ■  ■   ■
D A Bm A Bm7 A Bm7
■ ■ ■  ■ ■   ■ ■  


[Outro]