Standard Tuning
Capo on 6st fret

A4 
Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks 

C9                      A74 G6
Goin' someplace there's no goin'  back 

G6        
Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the bridge 

A4                   A4/G    A4
Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge 


A4 
Shelter line stretchin' 'round the corner 

C9          A74    G6
Welcome to the new world order 

G6
Families sleepin' in their cars in the southwest 

   A4           A4/G   A4
No home no job no peace no rest 


Refrain:

      F 
(The) Highway is alive tonight 

             C                    G6       Am
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes 

    G6
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light 

A4              A4/G       A4
Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad 


A4
He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag 

C9                         A74  G6 
Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag 

G6
Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last 

     A4                     A4/G   A4
In a cardboard box 'neath the under-  -pass 

      A4
Got a one-way ticket to the promised land 

          C9                  A74      G6
You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand 

G6
Sleepin' on a pillow of solid rock 

A4                A4/G A4
Bathin' in the city aque-  -duct 


Refrain:

          F 
(But the) highway is alive tonight 

      C                 G6        Am
(But) where it's headed everybody knows 

    G6
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light 

A4           A4/G       A4
Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad  


Refrain (solo without singing):

F , C , G6 , Am

Asus/G   Asus (silent part, try to listen, how its played)


A4
wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy 

         C9            A74 G6
wherever a hungry newborn baby   cries 

G6
Where there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air 

A4            A4/G  A4 
Look for me mom I'll be there 


A4
Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand 

     C9           A74  G6
Or a decent job or a helpin' hand 

G6
Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free 

A4                   A4/G     A4
Look in their eyes mom you'll see me. 


Refrain:

          F 
(But the) highway is alive tonight 

    C                             G6       Am
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes 

G6
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light 

A4              A4/G  A4
With the ghost of old Tom Joad 


Refrain (solo without singing): F , C , G6 , Am , G6 , A4 , A4/G , A4 (x2)