[00:23.13]Men walkin' long the railroad tracks
[00:28.33]Goin' someplace there's no goin' back
[00:33.23]Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge
[00:37.84]Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
[00:44.03]Shelter line stretchin' 'round the corner
[00:49.51]Welcome to the new world order
[00:54.34]Families sleepin' in their cars in the Southwest
[00:59.68]No home no job no peace no rest
[01:04.65]The highway is alive tonight
[01:09.62]But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
[01:14.93]I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
[01:20.80]Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad
[01:34.12]He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag
[01:39.45]Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
[01:44.19]Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
[01:50.30]In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
[01:55.19]Got a one-way ticket to the promised land
[02:00.63]You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand
[02:05.96]Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
[02:11.63]Bathin' in the city aqueduct
[02:16.26]The highway is alive tonight
[02:22.18]Where it's headed everybody knows
[02:26.94]I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
[02:32.79]Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad
[04:09.60]Now Tom said “Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy
[04:18.63]Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
[04:24.03]Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air
[04:29.30]Look for me Mom I'll be there
[04:34.42]Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand
[04:39.60]Or decent job or a helpin' hand
[04:45.08]Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free
[04:50.74]Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me.”
[04:55.61]Well the highway is alive tonight
[05:01.29]But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
[05:06.36]I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
[05:12.15]With the ghost of old Tom Joad
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