Man walks along the railroad track<br />He's Goin' some place, there's no turnin' back<br />The Highway Patrol chopper comin' up over the ridge<br />Man sleeps by a campfire under the bridge<br />The shelter line stretchin' around the corner<br />Welcome to the New World Order<br />Families sleepin' in their cars out in the Southwest<br />No job, no hope, no peace, no rest, NO REST!<br /><br />And The highway is alive tonight<br />Nobody's foolin' nobody is to where it goes<br />I'm sitting down here in the campfire light<br />Searchin' for the Ghost of Tom Joad<br /><br />He pulls his prayer book out of a sleepin' bag<br />The preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag<br />He's waitin' for the time when the last shall be first and the first shall be last<br />In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass<br />With a one way ticket to the promised land<br />With a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand<br />Lookin' for a pillow of solid rock<br />Bathin' in the cities' aqueducts<br /><br />And The highway is alive tonight<br />Nobody's foolin' nobody is to where it goes<br />I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light<br />With the Ghost of old Tom Joad<br /><br />Now Tom Said; "Ma, whenever ya see a cop beatin' a guy<br />Wherever a hungry new born baby cries<br />Whereever there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air<br />Look for me ma'<br />I'll be there<br />Wherever somebodies stuglin' for a place to stand<br />For a decent job or a helpin' hand<br />Wherever somebody is strugglin' to be free<br />Look in their eyes ma,<br />You'll see me! (repeat 8 times)<br /><br />And the highway is alive tonight<br />nobody's foolin' nobody is to where it goes<br />I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light<br />With the Ghost of Tom Joad.<br /><br />Yeah!
