Chords for Andy Irvine - The Ballad of Tom Joad

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_ _ _ _ Tom Joe got loose from [B] [E] Macalester Penn.
[A] It's there that he got [E] penned, bro.
_ [A] After four long years on a [Em] man-killing [A] charge, Tom Joe came walking [E] down the road.
_ _ [B] Tom Joe, did he [E] even march?
A truck driving by.
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It's there that he got [E] him a ride.
He [A] says, I just got loose from [B] Macalester Penn [C#m] on a [E] charge called homicide. _ _ _
_ _ Well, that truck drove away in a cloud of dust, [A] and Tom turned his face [E] towards home.
And he met Preacher Casey, and they [B] had a [A] little [E] drink.
But they [A] found that his [E] family, they were gone.
_ _ [B] Oh, they found [A] his mother's [E] old-fashioned shoe, [A] _
found his daddy's [E] hat, [A] and they found little [E] Muley.
And [B] Muley says, [A]
they'd been [E] tracked her down by the cats. _ _
_ Tom Joe walked down to his neighbour's farm.
[A] He found his [E] family. _
And [C#m] they took [E] Preacher Casey, and they loaded him in a car.
And his [A] mother says, [E] we've got to get away.
_ _ Well, the twelve of the Joes made a mighty heavy load.
[A] But Grandfather Joe [E] did cry.
And [A] he picked up [E] a handful of land in his hands, [A] and said, I'm staying with the [E] farm until I die.
_ They gave him short ribs and poppy and soot and syrup.
[A] But Grandfather Joe did [E] die.
But [C#m] buried _ [E] Grandfather Joe by the [A] side of the [E] road, and Grandma on the California side. _
_ [B] Oh, they stood on a [A] mountain, and they looked [E] to the west.
[A] And it looked like the promised [E]
land.
[C#m] That bright [E] green valley with a river [A] running [E] through.
It was [A] worth for [E] every single hat they thought.
It was worth for every single hat.
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But the [B] Joes drove away [E] to a jungle camp.
[A] It's there that they cooked [E] up a stew. _
[A] And the hungry [E] little kids from the jungle camp [C#m] said, we'd [A] like to [E] have some too. _
_ [B] _ _ [A] Deputy Sheriff [E] fired loose at a man.
[A] He shot a woman [E] in the back.
_ [C#m] Before [E] he could take his aim [A]
again.
Preacher Casey [E] looked at his tracks.
_ _ And they handcuffed him, and they [B] took [E] him to jail.
[A] But then he got [E]
away.
_ [A] And he met Tom [E] Joe by the old river [C#m] bridge.
And these [A] few words [E] he did say.
_ _ [B] I have preached for [E] the Lord a very long time.
[A] I've preached about the rich [E] and the poor.
[C#m] Us [E] working folks had better get together, [B] or we [C#] haven't got [B] a [E] chance anymore.
_ _ _ Well, the deputies came, and Tom and Casey ran [A] to the bridge where the river [E] ran down.
[A] But the [E] vigilante thugs hit Casey with a [A] club.
They laid Preacher [E] Casey on the ground. _ _
Tom Joe, he grabbed that deputy's club, [A] and he hit him over the [E] head.
[A] Tom Joe took [E] flight in the dark rainy night, and a deputy and a preacher lying dead.
_ Well, Tom ran back to where his mother was [A] asleep.
He woke her up [E] out of bed.
And he says goodbye to the mother that he loved.
He [A] said what [E] Preacher Casey said.
_ _ _ [B] Everybody might [E] be just one big [A] soul.
It looks that way [E] to me.
[C#m] Wherever [E] you look in the [B] day [A] or [E] night, that's where I'm going to be. _
_ [B] Wherever little [E] children are hungry and cry.
[A] Wherever people [E] aren't free.
_ _ _ Wherever folks are fighting for their [A] rights, that's [E] where I'm going to be. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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