Chords for Bruce Springsteen - Ghost Of Tom Joad - People Speak 2009

[F] I wrote the song in the mid-90s.
It was my conversation I was having with myself.
As you roll along, your better angels come in and out of sight.
[Cm] I was looking to fill my music with purpose once again.
[E] Living in [F] California, _ _ [Eb] there were a lot of migrant worker issues, [F] _ [Cm] immigration issues [F] constantly.
_ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [Ab] You had a sense that where California [Fm] was in the mid-90s was where [Cm] the rest of the country was going to be going in the next decade.
And it really has.
A [F] combination of running around by myself [Bb] and with the band and coming [F] in contact with a lot of people [Ab] that work at Variety for a variety of different [Cm] [F] grassroots social organizations
[Bb] who were seeing the [C] demand for [Cm] their services [Ab] for food banks and such had been going up and up and up even as we heard [Eb] about the economic bubble on top.
From this song, I wrote an album of [F] songs [Cm] kind of set in the West.
_ _ Let _ _ me just sing it.
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_ Men walking along the railroad tracks. _
_ _ [Eb] Found some places [Bb] no going back. _
Highway patrol choppers coming up over the ridge. _
_ [Cm] Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge. _
_ Sheltered lines stretching around the corn. _ _
[C] _ [G] [Eb] Welcome to the new [Bb] world, Lord. _
Family sleeping in their cars in the Southwest. _ _
_ [Cm] No home, no job, no peace, no rest. _
[Ab] Well, the highway is alive at night. _
[Eb] But nobody's [Bb] kidding nobody about [Cm] where it goes.
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[Bb] I'm sitting down here in the campfire line. _ _
_ [Cm] Searching for the ghost of Tom Joe. _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ He pulls a prayer book out of a sleeping [C] bag.
_ _ [Gm] [Eb] Preacher lights up a bud and [Bb] takes a drag.
Waiting for when the [F] last will be first and the first will be last.
_ _ [Cm] In a cardboard box near the underpass.
[C] _ You got a one-way ticket to the promised land.
You _ _ [Gm] [Eb] got a hole in your belly and a [Bb] gun in your hand.
_ _ Sleeping on a pillar of solid rock.
_ _ _ [Cm] Bathing in the [Gm] city [Cm] of Ecuador.
_ _ [Ab] Well, the highway is alive at night.
_ _ [Eb] But where [Bb] it's headed, [Cm] everybody knows.
_ [Bb] I'm sitting down here in the campfire line.
_ _ _ [Cm] Waiting on the [Eb] ghost [Cm] of Tom Joe.
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_ _ _ _ Now Tom said, _ _ _ Mom, _ wherever there's a cop beating a guy.
_ _ Wherever [Eb] a hungry and born [Bb] baby cries.
_ Where there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air.
_ _ _ _ [C] Look for [Eb] me, Mom, [Bb] I'll be [Cm] there.
_ _ Wherever somebody's fighting [Gm] for a place [Cm] to stand.
[Eb] Or a decent job [Bb] or a helping hand.
_ _ _ Wherever somebody's struggling to be free.
_ _ _ [Cm] Look in their eyes, [Gm] Mom, you'll [Cm] see me.
_ [Ab] Well, the highway is alive at night.
_ _ [Eb] But nobody's kidding nobody [Bbm] about the [Cm] red gold.
_ [Bb] I'm sitting down here in the campfire line.
_ _ _ [C] With the ghost [Gm] of old [Cm] Tom Joe.
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