The Ghost of Tom Joad Chords by Rage Against The Machine

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[Ab] Man walks along railroad [C] tracks.
[D] _ _ _ [C]
[D] He's going some place and there's [C] no turning [D] back.
_ [C] The highway patrol [D] chopper coming up over [C] the [D] ridge. _ _
Man sleeps [G] by a campfire under the [C] ridge.
_ [D] The shelter [C] lines stretching around the corner.
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Welcome [C] to the new world, [D] honor.
_ _ Families sleeping in their [C] cars out in the southwest.
[D] _ [E] _ _ _ [D]
No job, [C] no home, no peace, [D] no rest.
[C] The _ _
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_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ highway is alive tonight.
Nobody's fooling nobody as to where it goes.
We're sitting down here in the campfire light.
Searching for the ghost of Tom Jones.
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _
_ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ [D] He's pulling his spare part [C] out of a sleeping [D] bag.
_ _ The preacher lights up [C] a bud and takes a drag.
[D] _ [C] He's waiting for the [D] time when the last shall be [C] first and the first shall be [D] last.
[C] _ _ [D] In a cardboard [C] box sleeping underpass.
[D] _ [C] _ _ [D] With a one-way ticket [C] to the promised land.
_ _ [C] _ [D] With a hole in your belly [C] and a gun in your [D] hand.
[C] _ [D] Looking for a throne [C] on solid rock.
[D] _ [C] _ _ _ [D]
Raising in the [C] city's aqueduct.
[D] _ _ _ Rock!
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ The highway is alive tonight.
Nobody's fooling nobody as to where it goes.
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light.
The ghost of old Tom [Dm] Jones.
_ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ Inside a sack and pot.
[D] Wherever you're sitting a cop beating a guy.
_ [C] _ Wherever [D] a hungry newborn baby cries.
_ [C] _ Wherever [D] there's a fight against the [C] blood and hatred in [D] the air.
[C] _ _ [D] Look for me ma, I'll be there.
[C] _ Wherever [D]
somebody's struggling [G] for a place to stay.
_ _ _ [D] For a decent job or a hundred hands.
_ _ Wherever somebody's [E] struggling to be free. _ _ _
Look in their eyes ma, you'll see me.
You'll see me.
You'll see me.
You'll see [C] me.
You'll see me.
You'll see me.
_ [D]
You'll [C] see me.
You'll see [D] me.
_ [C] _ [D] Rock!
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ The [D]
highway is alive tonight.
Nobody's fooling nobody as to where it goes.
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light.
_ With the ghost of Tom Jones. _