The song The Ghost Of Tom Joad is performed by Rage Against the Machine in the album named Collection in the year 2010 .
Man walks along the railroad track
He's Goin' some place, there's no turnin' back
The Highway Patrol chopper comin' up over the ridge
Man sleeps by a campfire under the bridge
The shelter line stretchin' around the corner
Welcome to the New World Order
Families sleepin' in their cars out in the Southwest
No job, no home, no peace, no rest, NO REST!
And The highway is alive tonight
Nobody's foolin' nobody is to where it goes
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
Searchin' for the Ghost of Tom Joad
He pulls his prayer book out of a sleepin' bag
The preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
He's waitin' for the time when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
In a cardboard box 'neath the underpa*s
With a one way ticket to the promised land
With a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand
Lookin' for a pillow of solid rock
Bathin' in the cities' aqueducts
And The highway is alive tonight
Nobody's foolin' nobody is to where it goes
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
With the Ghost of old Tom Joad
Guitar Solo
Now Tom Said; "Ma, whenever ya see a cop beatin' a guy
Wherever a hungry new born baby cries
Whereever there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air
Look for me ma'
I'll be there
Wherever somebodies stuglin' for a place to stand
For a decent job or a helpin' hand
Wherever somebody is strugglin' to be free
Look in their eyes ma,
You'll see me! (repeat 8 times)
And the highway is alive tonight
nobody's foolin' nobody is to where it goes
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
With the Ghost of Tom Joad.
Rage Against the Machine - Collection
Collection
- Bombtrack
- Killing In The Name
- Take The Power Back
- Settle For Nothing
- Bullet In The Head
- Know Your Enemy
- Wake Up Album
- Fistful Of Steel
- Township Rebellion
- Freedom
- People Of The Sun
- Bulls on Parade
- Vietnow
- Revolver
- Snakecharmer
- Tire Me
- Down Rodeo
- Without A Face
- Wind Below
- Roll Right
- Year Of Tha Boomerang
- Microphone Fiend
- Pistol Grip Pump
- Kick Out The Jams
- Renegades Of Funk
- Beautiful World
- Im Housin
- In My Eyes
- How I Could Just Kill A Man
- The Ghost Of Tom Joad
- Down On The Street
- Street Fighting Man
- Maggies Farm
- Kick Out The Jams Live Version
- How I Could Just Kill A Man Live
- Testify
- Guerrilla Radio
- Calm Like A Bomb
- Mic Check
- Sleep Now In The Fire
- Born Of A Broken Man
- Born As Ghosts
- Maria
- Voice Of The Voiceless
- New Millennium Homes
- Ashes In The Fall
- War Within A Breath
- Bulls On Parade - Live
- Bullet In The Head - Live
- Born Of A Broken Man - Live
- Killing In The Name - Live
- Calm Like A Bomb - Live
- Testify - Live
- Bombtrack - Live
- War Within A Breath - Live
- Im Housin - Live
- Sleep Now In The Fire - Live
- People Of The Sun - Live
- Guerrilla Radio - Live
- Kick Out The Jams - Live
- Know Your Enemy - Live
- No Shelter - Live
- Freedom - Live