Capo 5

AmLoad (x02210@1)up the old Dodge truck
      Fmaj7We'll (1x3210@1)leave what we can't sell
AmNobody (x02210@1)needs a sharecropper's tools 
Fmaj7
or a dust filled well
AmTake (x02210@1)you one last look around
Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)  
shed you one last tear
        AmFor (x02210@1)the broken plow, the broken dreams
        Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)            AmAnd (x02210@1)the life we're leaving here

Pull the lines down tight
The kids can ride on top of the load
In the cool of the night
They can crawl underneath the tarp
To stay out of the cold
Eleven hundred miles of mountain and sand
We'll cross 'em tired and torn
If this beat up truck can carry us
Far enough away from the storm

Chorus:
      F (133211@1)          CWe're (x32010@1)going to California
        GThere's (320003@1)work there for a man
    F (133211@1)              CToo (x32010@1)proud to beg for charity
    G (320003@1)            FToo (133211@1)poor to make a stand
                              G (320003@1)Pray it's just the land we're losing
       C (x32010@1)                 FNot (133211@1)my life's blood that I leave
       AmOn (x02210@1)the handles of that broken plow

That haunts me in my dreams

A man at a roadside station
Don't like dealing with my kind
He'd beat me out of my last dollar
And never look me in the eye
I heard 'em call us Okies
Hell I don't know what that means
But something tells me the promised land
Ain't as promising as it seems

Chorus

Bridge:  F Am
Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)                       AmThis (x02210@1)restless road is full of strangers
Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)                       AmThey (x02210@1)ain't no stranger than I am
Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)                 AmHardened (x02210@1)faces damn the dust and curse the wind
     AmThat (x02210@1)drove us from this life and home
      Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)     Am (x02210@1)We'll never know again

Chorus

On the handles of my broken plow that haunts me in my dreams