The Ghost of Tom Joad (Electric Version) Chords

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_ _ walking along the railroad tracks _
_ _ [G] Gone some place, there's no [D] going back
_ Highway patrol choppers coming up over a ridge _ _ [E] Hot soup [D] on a campfire under [E] the bridge _
_ _ Shelter lines stretching around the corner _
_ _ [G] Welcome to New [D] World, all of it
I'm a-sleeping in the cars in the southwest No _ home, no job, no peace, [E] no rest
_ [C] Well, the highway's alive tonight But _ [G] nobody's kidding nobody about where [Em] it goes
_ [D] I'm sitting down here in the campfire line _
_ _ _ [E] Searching for the ghost of Tommy Jones
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_ _ _ _ _ He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag _ _ [G] Preacher lights up a foot and [D] takes a drag
Waiting for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
_ [E] In a cardboard box meets the underpass You got a one-way ticket to the promised land
_ [Em] _ [G] You got a hole in your belly and a [D] gun in your hand _ Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
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Nathan in the city is [Em] that quick dark
_ [C] Well, the highway's alive tonight _ _ _ [G] Where it's headed [E] everybody knows
_ [D] I'm sitting down here in the campfire line _ _ _ [E] Waiting on the ghost of Tommy [Bm] Jones
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_ _ [E] Now Tom said, _ [Em] _
_ [E] Mama, wherever there's a cop beating a guy _
_ [G] Wherever hungry and a born [D] baby cries
Where there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air _
_ _ Look [E] for me, Mama, [Em] I'll be there
_ Wherever somebody's fighting for a place to stand _
_ _ [G] Or a decent job or a [D] helping hand
_ Wherever somebody's struggling to be free _
_ _ Look [Em] in their eyes, Ma, [Em] you'll see me
The [C] _ highway's alive _ _
_ _ [G] Where it's headed [Em] everybody knows
I'm [D] sitting down here in the campfire line _
_ _ [Em] With the ghost of old Tom Jones
Well, [C] the highway is alive _ _
But [G] nobody's getting nobody of the way [Em] it goes
_ [D] I'm sitting down here in the campfire line _
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