[00:04.58]Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks
[00:48.65]Goin' someplace there's no goin' back
[00:53.46]Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge
[00:59.67]Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
[01:05.28]Shelter line stretchin' round the corner
[01:11.21]Welcome to the new world order
[01:16.17]Families sleepin' in their cars in the southwest
[01:22.20]No home no job no peace no rest
[01:27.81]The highway is alive tonight
[01:32.81]But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
[01:39.15]I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
[01:45.39]Searchin' for the ghost of tom joad
[01:55.92]He pulls prayer book out of his sleeping bag
[02:01.68]Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
[02:06.56]Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
[02:13.34]In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
[02:18.59]Got a one way ticket to the promised land
[02:24.54]You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand
[02:30.38]Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
[02:36.44]Bathin' in the city aqueduct
[02:41.63]The highway is alive tonight
[02:44.63]But where it's headed everybody knows
[02:53.12]I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
[02:59.25]Waitin' on the ghost of tom joad
[03:21.84]Now tom said 'mom
[03:24.65]Wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy
[03:30.00]Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
[03:35.81]Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air
[03:42.30]Look for me mom I'll be there
[03:47.15]Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand
[03:53.18]Or decent job or a helpin' hand
[03:58.74]Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free
[04:05.55]Look in their eyes mom you'll see me
[04:10.50]'
[04:10.62]The highway is alive tonight
[04:15.93]But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
[04:22.62]I'm sittin' downhere in the campfire light
[04:28.56]With the ghost of old tom joad