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 harp: b flat major 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#

^EmMen walkin' 'long the railroad tracks ^GGoin' someplace there's no goin' ^D/F#back

Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge

^EmHot soup on a campfire under the bridge Shelter line stretchin' round the corner ^GWelcome to the new world ^D/F#order

Families sleepin' in their cars in the southwest

^EmNo home no job no peace no rest

^CThe highway is alive tonight ^GBut nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it ^Emgoes ^D/F#I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light ^EmSearchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad

^EmHe pulls prayer book out of his sleeping bag ^GPreacher lights up a butt and takes a ^D/F#drag

Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last

^EmIn a cardboard box 'neath the underpass Got a one-way ticket to the promised land ^GYou got a hole in your belly and gun in your ^D/F#hand

Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock

^EmBathin' in the city aqueduct

^CThe highway is alive tonight ^GBut nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it ^Emgoes ^D/F#I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light ^EmSearchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad

Band Interlude: C,G,Em,D/F#,Em :|

^EmNow Tom said "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy ^GWherever a hungry newborn baby ^D/F#cries

Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air

^EmLook for me Mom I'll be there Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand ^GOr decent job or a helpin' ^D/F#hand

Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free

^EmLook in their eyes Mom you'll see me."

^CThe highway is alive tonight ^GBut nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it ^Emgoes ^D/F#I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light ^EmSearchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad

Outro: C,G,Em,D/F#,Em :| G,C,Em ************** Corrections are more than welcome. E-Mail me at: mister-monkey@gmx.de **************

Bruce Springsteen - The ghost of tom joad