Ghost of Tom Joad

Bruce Springsteen
Words by Bruce Springsteen
Standard tuning
 = 140
Intro (play twice)
Capo fret 3
1 2 3
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    
    


s.guit.

let ring let ring

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4 5 Verse 1 6

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     
Men walking long the railr oad tracks
Shelter line stretching round the corner
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               
     
Going someplace, and there's
Welcome to the
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          
 
no going back Highway patrol
new world order Families sleeping in the cars
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13    14    15   
            
  
choppers coming up over the ridge
in the southwest
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 16    17
 18

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

   
  
Hot soup on a campfire under
No home, no job, no peace,
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19 20 21
          
    
  

the bridge Well, the highway is alive
no rest
let ring let ring

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22 23 24

               
        
tonight But nobody's
let ring let ring let ring
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1 1 1

25     26
 27

           
   
kidding nobody about where it goes
let ring let ring
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 0 0
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3 0
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28 29    30   
              
   
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
let ring let ring let ring
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31    32    33

             
    
Searching for the ghost

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 34 35 36
      
     

of Tom Joad
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37 Interlude 38 39

           
      
let ring let ring
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40 41 42

           
      
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43 44 45 Verse 2
         
         
He pulls a prayer book out of his
You got a one- way ticket to the promised
let ring let ring

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46 47 48

                
       
sleeping bag Preacher
land You got a
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49    50 51  
  
      
    

lights up a butt and he takes a drag
hole in your belly and a gun in your hand
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 52    53    54   
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  
Waiting for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
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55    56    57

             
    
In a cardboard box beneath the
Bathing in the
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58 59 60
      
 
   


under pass
city's aqueduct
let ring let ring

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61 Chorus 62 63

               
        
Well the highway is alive tonight
let ring let ring let ring
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64
 65    66

 


  
     
 
Where it's headed for, everybody
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 67 68 69   
              
      
knows I'm sitting down here in the campfire
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 70    71    72   
            
  
light
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73 74 75
    
    
    
   

Waiting on the ghost of Tom Joad
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76 77 Interlude 78
    
       
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79 80 81

                
       
let ring let ring let ring
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82 83 84
   
      
 Now Tom said,

let ring let ring

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85 86 87
        
         
"Mom, wher ever there's a cop
Wherever somebody's fighting for a place to
let ring let ring

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 88 89 90

                
       
beating a guy Wherever a
stand Or a
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91    92
 93
  
          
 
hungry newborn baby cries
decent job or a helping hand
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94 95 96
        
         
  
Where there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air
Wherever somebody's struggling to be free
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97 98 99
           
     
 
Look for me, Mom, I'll be
Look in their eyes, Ma, and you'll see
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100 101 102

        
        

there Well the highway is a-
me"
let ring let ring

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103 104 105

               
        
live tonight But nobody's
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 106    107 108

             
  
kidding nobody about where it goes
let ring let ring let ring
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 0 0
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2 2
3 0 0
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109 110 111

          
       
  
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
let ring let ring let ring
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112 113 114

           
     
 
With the ghost of old
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Ending
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            
     
Tom Joad
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118 119 120

           
      
let ring let ring
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121 122 123

   
      
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