Ghost of Tom Joad-Solas

[00:24.94]Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks [00:30.26]Goin' someplace and there's nowhere to go back [00:35.01]Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge [00:40.77]Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge [00:46.41]Shelter line stretchin' round the corner [00:51.81]Welcome to the new world order [00:56.71]Families sleepin' in their cars in the southwest [01:02.41]No home no job no peace no rest [01:06.02] [01:08.39]The highway is alive tonight [01:12.94]Nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes [01:18.22]I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light [01:23.77]Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad [01:27.16] [01:34.70]Takes a prayer book out of his sleeping bag [01:39.81]Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag [01:45.13]He waits for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last [01:50.77]'neath a cardboard box in the underpass [01:56.61]You've got a one-way ticket to the promised land [02:00.95]You've got a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand [02:07.54]Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock [02:12.66]Bathin' in the city aqueduct [02:16.37] [02:18.01]The highway is alive tonight [02:23.59]But where it's headed everybody knows [02:28.79]I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light [02:34.16]Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad [02:37.94] [03:01.53]"Whenever there's a cop beatin' a guy [03:06.33]Whenever a hungry newborn baby cries [03:11.90]Where there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air [03:17.29]Just look for me and I'll be there [03:22.50]Wherever there's somebody waitin' for a place to stand [03:27.54]Or a decent job or a helpin' hand [03:33.45]Wherever there's somebody strugglin' to be free [03:39.07]Just look in their eyes and you'll see me" [03:43.06] [03:44.64]The highway is alive tonight [03:49.50]Nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes [03:55.31]I'm sittin' downhere in the campfire light [04:00.66]Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad [04:04.86] [04:06.29]The highway is alive tonight [04:10.81]Nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes [04:16.54]I'm sittin' downhere in the campfire light [04:22.04]With the ghost of old Tom Joad [04:25.45]