Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost Of Tom Joad guitar tab

The Ghost Of Tom Joad

Bruce Springsteen

(From the album "The Ghost of Tom Joad")

Note: I'm just including chords for this song, since not all of it is

fingerpicked in a repeating pattern, and since I play this by myself I

strum most of it after the first chorus, anyway. Harmonica players will be

glad to see this song is in B minor, which allows you to play it on your D

major harmonica. (Nebrasks fans will undoubtedly have a D harmonica.) I

don't include fingerings for this song. There'll standard, as far as my

ear can discern.

Bm

Men walkin' long the railroad tracks

D Bm A

Goin' someplace there's no goin' back

Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge

Bm A Bm

Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge

Shelter line stretchin' round the corner

D Bm A

Welcome to the new world order

Families sleepin' in their cars in the Southwest

Bm A Bm

No home no job no peace no rest

G

The highway is alive tonight

D A Bm

But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes

A

I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light

Bm A Bm

Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad

He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag

Preachers lights up a butt and takes a drag

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

In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass

Got a one-way ticket to the promised land

You got a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand

Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock

Bathin' in the city aqueduct

The highway is alive tonight

Where it's headed everybody knows

I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light

Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad

Now Tom said, "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy

Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries

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

Look for me Mom I'll be there

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

Or a decent job or a helpin' hand

Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free

Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me."

Well the highway is alive tonight

But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes

I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light

With the ghost of old Tom Joad

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The Ghost of Tom Joad

Bruce Springsteen

This is the title track of the album.

Bm

Men walkin long the railroad tracks

D D Dsus2 A

Goin someplace theres no goin back

A

High patrol choppers commin up over the ridge

D Dsus4 D Bm

Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge

Shelter line stretchin round the corner

Welcome to the new world order

Families sleepin in their cars in the Southwest

No home no job no peace no rest

G

The highway is alive tonight

D Dsus4 D Bm

But it's kiddin nobody about where it goes

A

I'm sittin down here in the campfire light

D Dsus4 D Bm

Searchin for the ghost of Tom Joad

He pulls a prayer book out of his sleepin bag

Preacher lights up a butt and he takes a drag

Waitin for When the last shall be first and the first shall be last

In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass

Got a one way ticket to the promised land

You got a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand

Sleepin on a pillow of solid rock

Bathin in the city aqueduct

The highway is alive tonight

Where it's headed everybody knows

I'm sittin down here in the campfire light

Waitin on the ghost of Tom Joad

Now Tom said "Mom wherever theres a cop beatin a guy

Wherever a hungry new-born baby cries

Where theres a fight against the blood and hatred in the air

Look for me Mom I'll be there

Wherever theres somebody fightin for a place to stand

Or a decent job or a helpin hand

Wherever somebody's strugglin to be free

Look in there eyes Mom you'll see me"

Well the highway is alive tonight

But it's kiddin nobody about where it goes

I'm sittin down here in the campfire light

With the ghost of old Tom Joad

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