The Ghost of Tom Joad Bruce Springsteen
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 3:30 pm
From: mister-monkey@gmx.de
THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD
by Bruce Springsteen
(Live Performance 1999-10-23, Staples Center, LA)
Hey, this is my first tab, i made this one for the version played live at the
staples center in 1999.
You best check the youtube link for the strumming pattern:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sezJ_UaIP_g
Capo: 3rd fret
chords used (relative to capo) :
Em (022000)
G (320001)
C (x32010)
D/F# (200232)
Intro: Em, G, D/F#, Em, C, G, Em, D/F#
[Em]Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks
[G]Goin' someplace there's no goin' [D/F#]back
Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge
[Em]Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
Shelter line stretchin' round the corner
[G]Welcome to the new world [D/F#]order
Families sleepin' in their cars in the southwest
[Em]No home no job no peace no rest
[C]The highway is alive tonight
[G]But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it [Em]goes
[D/F#]I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
[Em]Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad
[Em]He pulls prayer book out of his sleeping bag
[G]Preacher lights up a butt and takes a [D/F#]drag
Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
[Em]In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
Got a one-way ticket to the promised land
[G]You got a hole in your belly and gun in your [D/F#]hand
Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
[Em]Bathin' in the city aqueduct
[C]The highway is alive tonight
[G]But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it [Em]goes
[D/F#]I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
[Em]Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad
Band Interlude: C,G,Em,D/F#,Em :|
[Em]Now Tom said "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy
[G]Wherever a hungry newborn baby [D/F#]cries
Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air
[Em]Look for me Mom I'll be there
Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand
[G]Or decent job or a helpin' [D/F#]hand
Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free
[Em]Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me."
[C]The highway is alive tonight
[G]But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it [Em]goes
[D/F#]I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
[Em]Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad
Outro:
C,G,Em,D/F#,Em :| G,C,Em
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Corrections are more than welcome.
E-Mail me at: mister-monkey@gmx.de
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