Chords for Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad (Springsteen on Broadway - Official Audio)

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Man walking along the railroad [G] [Cm] tracks, _
_ [Eb] going someplace there's [Bb] no going back.
Highway patrol
choppers coming up over the ridge.
_ [Cm] Hot soup on a campfire [Cm] under the bridge.
_ _ Shelter lines
stretching around the corner.
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Welcome to the new [Bb] world order. _
Families sleeping in their
cars in the southwest. _
_ [Eb] [Cm] No home, no job, [Bb] no peace, [Cm] no rest.
[Ab] Well, the highway is alive
tonight.
_ [Eb] But nobody's kidding nobody about where it [Cm] goes.
_ [Bb] I'm sitting down here in the
campfire line, _ _
_ [C] searching for the ghost of [Cm] Tom Joe.
_ _ _ [C] _ He pulls a prayer book [Cm] out of his
_ sleeping bag. _
[Gm] [Eb] Breacher lights up a button, [Bb] takes a drag.
Waiting for when the last shall
be first and the first shall be last.
_ _ [Cm] In a cardboard box beneath the underpass.
_ You got
a one-way ticket to the promised land.
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[Eb] You got a hole in your belly and a [Bb] gun in your
hand. _
_ Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock.
_ _ [Cm] Bathing in the city aqueduct.
_ [Ab] Well, the highway
is alive tonight.
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Where it's headed, everybody [Cm] knows. _
[Bb] I'm sitting down here in the campfire
line, _
_ _ [Cm] waiting on the ghost of Tom Joe.
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[Eb] _ [Cm] _ _ _ Now Tom said, _ _ Mom, wherever [G] there's a [Cm] cop beating
a guy. _ _
[Eb] Wherever a hungry newborn [Bb] baby cries.
Where there's a fight against the blood and
hatred in the air.
_ _ [Cm] Look for me, [Bb] Mom, I'll [Cm] be there.
_ _ Wherever somebody's fighting for
a place to stand. _ _
[Eb] Or a decent job [Bb] or a helping hand.
_ Wherever somebody's struggling to be
free.
_ _ [C] Look in their eyes, [Gm] Mom, [Cm] you'll see me.
_ [Ab] Well, the highway is alive tonight. _ _ _
[Eb] Where
it's headed, everybody [Cm] knows.
_ [Bb] I'm sitting down here in the campfire line _ _ [Cm] with the ghost
of old Tom Joe.
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