People Speak, The movie - The Ghost of Tom Joad lyrics

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Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks<br>

Goin' someplace there's no goin' back<br>

Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the bridge<br>

Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge<br>

Shelter line stretchin' 'round the corner<br>

Welcome to the new world order<br>

Families sleepin' in their cars in the Southwest<br>

No home no job no peace no rest<br>

The highway is alive tonight<br>

But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes<br>

I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light<br>

Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad<br>

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He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag<br>

Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag<br>

Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last<br>

In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass<br>

Got a one-way ticket to the promised land<br>

You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand<br>

Sleepin' on a pillow of solid rock<br>

Bathin' in the city aqueduct<br>

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The highway is alive tonight<br>

Where it's headed everybody knows<br>

I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light<br>

Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad<br>

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Now Tom said "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy<br>

Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries<br>

Where there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air<br>

Look for me mom I'll be there<br>

Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand<br>

Or a decent job or a helpin' hand<br>

Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free<br>

Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me."<br>

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Well the highway is alive tonight<br>

But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes<br>

I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light<br>

With the ghost of old Tom Joad<br>

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