[00:13.47]Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks
[00:18.94]Goin' someplace there's no goin' back
[00:22.12]
[00:23.12]Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge
[00:26.56]
[00:29.37]Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
[00:31.87]
[00:34.12]Shelter line stretchin' 'round the corner
[00:36.93]
[00:39.68]Welcome to the new world order
[00:42.49]
[00:44.68]Families sleepin' in their cars in the Southwest
[00:47.68]
[00:49.93]No home no job no peace no rest
[00:52.87]
[00:54.93]The highway is alive tonight
[00:57.49]
[00:59.68]But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
[01:02.87]
[01:05.24]I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
[01:08.24]
[01:10.74]Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad
[01:14.18]
[01:15.37]He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag
[01:18.24]
[01:20.43]Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
[01:23.62]
[01:24.81]Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
[01:28.86]
[01:31.18]In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
[01:33.87]
[01:35.87]Got a one-way ticket to the promised land
[01:38.30]
[01:41.12]You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand
[01:43.62]
[01:46.06]Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
[01:48.87]
[01:51.56]Bathin' in the city aqueduct
[01:53.86]
[01:56.18]The highway is alive tonight
[01:58.81]
[02:01.74]Where it's headed everybody knows
[02:04.62]
[02:06.49]I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
[02:09.81]
[02:11.93]Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad
[02:14.43]
[02:30.81]Now Tom said "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy
[02:35.87]
[02:38.06]Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
[02:41.49]
[02:43.31]Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air
[02:47.06]
[02:48.87]Look for me Mom I'll be there
[02:51.62]
[02:53.24]Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand
[02:56.56]
[02:59.18]Or decent job or a helpin' hand
[03:02.12]
[03:03.74]Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free
[03:06.37]
[03:09.18]Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me."
[03:11.81]
[03:13.75]Well the highway is alive tonight
[03:16.43]
[03:18.62]But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
[03:21.68]
[03:24.00]I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
[03:27.62]
[03:29.43]With the ghost of old Tom Joad