Tom Joad Blues, Pt. 1 Lyrics

The song Tom Joad Blues, Pt. 1 is performed by Woody Guthrie in the album named Deja Vu Definitive Gold - Woody Guthrie in the year 2006 .



Tom Joad got out of the old McAlester Pen;
There he got his parole.
After four long years on a man killing charge,
Tom Joad come a-walkin' down the road, poor boy,
Tom Joad come a-walkin' down the road.

Tom Joad, he met a truck driving man;
There he caught him a ride.
He said, "I just got loose from McAlester Pen
On a charge called homicide,
A charge called homicide."

That truck rolled away in a cloud of dust;
Tommy turned his face toward home.
He met Preacher Casey, and they had a little drink,
But they found that his family they was gone,
He found that his family they was gone.

He found his mother's old fashion shoe,
Found his daddy's hat.
And he found little Muley and Muley said,
"They've been tractored out by the cats,
They've been tractored out by the cats."

Tom Joad walked down to the neighbor's farm,
Found his family.
They took Preacher Casey and loaded in a car,
And his mother said, "We've got to get away."
His mother said, "We've got to get away."

Now, the twelve of the Joads made a mighty heavy load;
But Grandpa Joad did cry.
He picked up a handful of land in his hand,
Said: "I'm stayin' with the farm till I die.
Yes, I'm stayin' with the farm till I die."

They fed him short ribs and coffee and soothing syrup;
And Grandpa Joad did die.
They buried Grandpa Joad by the side of the road,
Grandma on the California side,
They buried Grandma on the California side.

They stood on a mountain and they looked to the west,
And it looked like the promised land.
That bright green valley with a river running through,
There was work for every single hand, they thought,
There was work for every single hand.

The Joads rolled away to the jungle camp,
There they cooked a stew.
And the hungry little kids of the jungle camp
Said: "We'd like to have some, too."
Said: "We'd like to have some, too."

Now a deputy sheriff fired loose at a man,
Shot a woman in the back.
Before he could take his aim again,
Preacher Casey dropped him in his track, poor boy,
Preacher Casey dropped him in his track.

They handcuffed Casey and they took him in jail;
And then he got away.
And he met Tom Joad on the old river bridge,
And these few words he did say, poor boy,
These few words he did say.

"I preached for the Lord a mighty long time,
Preached about the rich and the poor.
Us workin' folkses, all get together,
'Cause we ain't got a chance anymore.
We ain't got a chance anymore."

Now, the deputies come, and Tom and Casey run
To the bridge where the water run down.
But the vigilante thugs hit Casey with a club,
They laid Preacher Casey on the ground, poor Casey,
They laid Preacher Casey on the ground.

Tom Joad, he grabbed that deputy's club,
Hit him over the head.
Tom Joad took flight in the dark rainy night,
And a deputy and a preacher lying dead, two men,
A deputy and a preacher lying dead.

Tom run back where his mother was asleep;
He woke her up out of bed.
An' he kissed goodbye to the mother that he loved,
Said what Preacher Casey said, Tom Joad,
He said what Preacher Casey said.

"Ever'body might be just one big soul,
Well it looks that a-way to me.
Everywhere that you look, in the day or night,
That's where I'm a-gonna be, Ma,
That's where I'm a-gonna be.

Wherever little children are hungry and cry,
Wherever people ain't free.
Wherever men are fightin' for their rights,
That's where I'm a-gonna be, Ma.
That's where I'm a-gonna be."



Woody Guthrie - Deja Vu Definitive Gold - Woody Guthrie

Nov 2006

  1. Dollar Down
  2. Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way
  3. Bad Lee Brown
  4. Baltimore to Washington
  5. Bed on the Floor
  6. Better World A-Comin'
  7. Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
  8. Blowing Down the Road
  9. Boll Weevil Blues
  10. Brown Eyes
  11. Buffalo Skinners
  12. Bury Me Beneath the Willow
  13. Car Song
  14. Columbus Stockade
  15. Cowboy Waltz
  16. Cumberland Gap
  17. Danville Girl
  18. Dead or Alive (Poor Lazarus)
  19. Dirty Overalls
  20. Do-Re-Mi
  21. Dust Bowl Blues
  22. End of the Line
  23. Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
  24. Foggy Mountain Top
  25. Get Along Little Doggies
  26. Grand Coulee Dam
  27. Gypsy Davy
  28. Hang Knot
  29. Hard Ain't It Hard
  30. Hard Travelin'
  31. Hey Lolly Lolly
  32. Hobo's Lullaby
  33. Houst of the Rising Sun
  34. Howjadoo
  35. I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
  36. Jack Hammer Blues
  37. Jesus Christ
  38. John Henry
  39. Johnny Hard
  40. Little Black Train
  41. Lonesome Day
  42. Lost John
  43. Ludlow Massacre
  44. Miner's Song
  45. More Pretty Girls Than One
  46. Old Time Religion
  47. Oregon Trail
  48. Philadelphia Lawyer
  49. Poor Boy
  50. Pretty Boy Floyd
  51. Put My Little Shoes Away
  52. Ramblin' Round
  53. Ranger's Command
  54. Ride Old Paint
  55. Rubber Dolly
  56. Sally Goodin'
  57. Ship in the Sky
  58. Sinking of the Reuben James
  59. Skip to My Lou
  60. So Long It's Been Good to Know You
  61. Sourwood Mountain
  62. Springfield Mountain
  63. Stewball
  64. Struggle Blues
  65. Take a Whiff on Me
  66. Talking Columbia
  67. Talking Dust Bowl Blues
  68. Great Dust Storm
  69. Golden Vanity
  70. Dying Miner
  71. This Land Is Your Land
  72. Tom Joad Blues, Pt. 1
  73. Tom Joad Blues, Pt. 2
  74. Union Burying Ground
  75. Vigilante Man
  76. Waiting at the Gate
  77. We Shall Be Free
  78. What Did the Deep Sea Say?
  79. When the Yank's Go Marching In
  80. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Feet?
  81. Whoopie Tii Yi Yo, Get Along Little Doggies
  82. Will You Miss Me?
  83. Worrid Man Blues
  84. Wreck of the Old '97
  85. 1913 Massacre

Tom Joad Blues, Pt. 1