View Guitar Chords for The ghost of tom joad - chords ver. 3
This version is in the key of G.I've seen it Transcribed in Bm(D major) and tried to play it like that but it didn't sound right so I converted it into Em(G major) Here are the chords I came up with.This is more like the live version with Tom Morello. Intro:EmEmMen walkin' long the railroad tracks,Ggone someplace tEmhere's no comin' Dback Highway patrol choppers comin' up o'er the ridge,EmMan sleeps by a cDampfire under thEme bridge.Shelter line stretchin' round the corner,welcome to the new world order.Family sleepin' in the cars in the southwest,no home no job no peace no rest. Chorus:CWell the highway is alive tonight,nobody's Gkiddin nobody about where It goes,ID'm sittin here in the campfire light,Emsearchin' for the GDhost of Tom EmJoad.He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag Preachers lights up a butt and takes a drag Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass Got a one-way ticket to the Promised Land You got a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock Bathin' in the city aqueduct The highway is alive tonight Where it's headed everybody knows I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad Now Tom said, "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries Where there's a fight 'gainst 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 Or a decent job or a helpin' hand Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me." Well the highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad ( repeat chorus again)] With the ghost of old Tom Joad (4x) Outro:Em