RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - Ghost of Tom Joad lyrics

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Man walks 'long the railroad tracks

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

Highway Patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge

Man sleeps by a campfire under the bridge

with Shelter line stretchin' around the corner

Welcome to the new world order

Families sleepin' in their cars out in the southwest

No home, no job, no peace, no rest

No rest!

The highway is alive tonight

nobody's kiddin' nobody as 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 his 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 one way ticket to the promised land

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

Sleepin' on a pillow of solid rock

Bathin' in the cities aqueduct

Rock!

The highway is alive tonight

Where its headed everybody knows

I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light

Waitin' on the ghost of old Tom Joad

Now Tom Said, "Mom, wherever you seen a cop beatin' a guy

Wherever a hungry new born baby cries

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

Look for me Mom, I'll be there

Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand

for decent job or a helpin' hand

Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free

Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me.

The highway is alive tonight

Nobody's kiddin nobody as to where it goes

I'm sitting down here in the campfire light

with the ghost of Tom Joad