Tom Joad Chords by Woody Guthrie

[N] _ But that's what it is right here, and that is to sing _ the song that I had heard, [G#] which is my favorite of all, which is Tom Joe's.
And it's the, I must say we named a little boy [A] after that.
We had a little boy last year, we named him Jody.
And I really had it in my heart to name him always after Tom [F#] Joe's.
I think you can, um, [C#] is that one for [F#] us?
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[C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ [F#] Tom Joe _ got out of [C#] that old McCallister tent.
[F#] _ _
There he got his [C#] parole. _ _
_ [F#] After four long years [C#] on a man-killin' [D#] charge, Tom Joe come [C#] a-walkin' down the road.
_ _ [G#] Tom Joe come a-walkin' [C#] down the road. _ _ _
_ [F#] It was there he found [C#] him, the truck-drivin' man.
[F#] _ There he got him [C#] a ride.
Said, [F#] I've just got a loose [C#] from the McCallister tent.
A charge called home, he sighed.
It was a charge [G#] called home, [C#] he sighed. _
_ _ _ _ [F#] That truck rolled away in [C#] a big cloud of dust.
[F#] Tom, he turned his face toward [C#] home.
[F#] Well, he met preacher Casey, [C#] and they had a little drink.
He found that his family, they was gone, Tom Joe.
He found that [G#] his family, they [C#] was gone. _
_ _ [F#] Well, he found his _ [C#]
mama's old-fashioned shoes.
[F#] He found his daddy's hat.
_ And he found little Muley, [C#] and little Muley said, they'd been fractured out by the tents.
_ Tom, they'd been [G#] fractured out by [C#] the tents.
_ So, Tom he [F#] walked down [C#] to a neighborin' farm.
[F#] _
Found his [C#] family.
_ And [F#] he took preacher Casey [C#] and loaded him in a car.
And his mammy said, we've got to get away, Tom.
His mammy [G#] said, we've got to get away.
[C#] _ _ _ _
[G#] _ _ [C#] _ _ Well, [F#] with twelve old men, Joe's [C#] made a mighty heavy load.
[F#] _
Grandpa Jody [C#] cried.
_ _ [F#] Grabbed up a [C#] handful of land and a new hat. _
Said, I'm a-stickin' with my farm till I die, God [G#] knows.
Stickin' with my farm [C#] till I die. _ _
_ Fed [F#] him spare ribs and coffee [C#] and soup and fur.
[F#] Grandpa _ [C#] Jody died.
_ _ [F#] Buried Grandpa Joe [C#] down the Oklahoma road.
Grandma [G#] on the [C#] California side.
[G#] Buried Grandma _ on the [C#] California side. _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] Well, we stood on a mountain and we [C#] looked to the west.
[F#] And it looked like the [C#] promised land.
[F#] Was a big, green valley [C#] and a river running through it.
There was work for every single man we fought.
There was work [G#] for every [C#] single man.
_ _ _ _ [G#] _
_ [C#] _ _ _ [F#] Well, Joe's gone away [C#] to the jungle camp.
[F#] There they cooked [C#] a stew.
_ [F#] _ Hungry little kids [C#] in the jungle camp said, we'd like to have some too.
Yes, we'd [G#] like to have [C#] some too.
_ _ [F#] Our deputy Sheriff [C#] called loose that a man.
[F#]
He shot a woman [C#] in the back.
But [F#]
before he could take [C#] his aim again, Preacher Casey dropped him in his tracks, poor boy.
Preacher Casey [G#] dropped [C#] him in his tracks.
[F#] Well, I handcuffed Casey [C#] and took him to jail.
[F#] Then he got [C#] away _ [F#] and he met a conjoined by the [C#] old river bridge.
These few words he could say to Preacher Casey.
[G#] These few words he [C#] did say.
_ _ Well, I [F#] preached for the Lord for a [C#] mighty long time.
[F#] Preached about the rich and [C#] the poor.
_ Us [F#] _ working folks, we've [C#] got to stick together.
[G#] For we ain't [C#] got a chance anymore, God knows.
[G#] We ain't got a chance [C#] anymore.
_ [F#] Now the deputies [C#] come and Tom and Casey run [F#] to the bridge where the water [C#] runs down.
But [F#] the vigilante thugs hit Casey [C#] with a club and they laid Preacher Casey on the ground.
Yes, they did.
They [G#] laid Preacher Casey on [C#] the ground.
_ _ _ [F#] Tom Joe, he grabbed [C#] that deputy's club [F#] and hit him over [C#] the head.
[F#] Tom Joe took flight in that [C#] dark rainy night.
There was a deputy and a preacher and two men.
Deputy [G#] and a preacher [C#] and two men. _ _
_ _ [F#] Tommy run back [C#] where his mama was asleep.
[F#] He woke her up out [C#] of bed and [F#] he kissed goodbye to [C#] the mother that he loved.
Said what the preacher Casey said, Tom Joe.
[G#] Said what the preacher [C#] Casey said.
_ _ [F#] Everybody might be just one [C#] big soul. _ _ _
[F#] And it looks that way [C#] to me.
[F#] _ Wherever you look [C#] in the day or the night, that's where I'm gonna be. _
_ [G#] That's where [C#] I'm gonna be. _
[F#] Wherever little kids are hungry [C#] and caught.
[F#] Wherever people ain't [C#] free.
_ _ [F#] _ Wherever men [C#] are fighting for their rights.
That's where I'm gonna be.
_ _ _ [G#] That's where I'm gonna be. _ _ _ _
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