The Ghost of Tom Joad
Rise Against

Man walks along the railroad track

He's Goin' some place, there's no turnin' back

The Highway Patrol chopper comin' up over the ridge

Man sleeps by a campfire under the bridge

The shelter line stretchin' around the corner

Welcome to the New World Order

Families sleepin' in their cars out in the Southwest

No job, no home, no peace, no rest, NO REST!


And The highway is alive tonight

Nobody's foolin' nobody is to where it goes

I'm sitting down here in the campfire light

Searchin' for the Ghost of Tom Joad


He pulls his prayer book out of a sleepin' bag

The preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag

He's waitin' for the time when the last shall be first and the first shall be last

In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass

With a one way ticket to the promised land

With a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand

Lookin' for a pillow of solid rock

Bathin' in the cities' aqueducts


And The highway is alive tonight

Nobody's foolin' nobody is to where it goes

I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light

With the Ghost of old Tom Joad


Now Tom Said; Ma, whenever ya see a cop beatin' a guy

Wherever a hungry new born baby cries

Whereever there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air

Look for me ma'

I'll be there

Wherever somebodies stuglin' for a place to stand

For a decent job or a helpin' hand

Wherever somebody is strugglin' to be free

Look in their eyes ma,

You'll see me! [repeat 8 times]


And the highway is alive tonight

nobody's foolin' nobody is to where it goes

I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light

With the Ghost of Tom Joad.


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