Standard Tuning Capo on 6st fret A5 Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks C5 A5 G5 Goin' someplace there's no goin' back G5 Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the bridge A5 A5 A5 Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge A5 Shelter line stretchin' 'round the corner C5 A5 G5 Welcome to the new world order G5 Families sleepin' in their cars in the southwest A5 A5 A5 No home no job no peace no rest Refrain: F5 (The) Highway is alive tonight C5 G5 A5 But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes G5 I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light A5 A5 A5 Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad A5 He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag C5 A5 G5 Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag G5 Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last A5 A5 A5 In a cardboard box 'neath the under- -pass A5 Got a one-way ticket to the promised land C5 A5 G5 You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand G5 Sleepin' on a pillow of solid rock A5 A5 A5 Bathin' in the city aque- -duct Refrain: F5 (But the) highway is alive tonight C5 G5 A5 (But) where it's headed everybody knows G5 I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light A5 A5 A5 Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad Refrain (solo without singing): F5 , C5 , G5 , A5 Asus/G Asus (silent part, try to listen, how its played) A5 wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy C5 A5 G5 wherever a hungry newborn baby cries G5 Where there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air A5 A5 A5 Look for me mom I'll be there A5 Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand C5 A5 G5 Or a decent job or a helpin' hand G5 Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free A5 A5 A5 Look in their eyes mom you'll see me. Refrain: F5 (But the) highway is alive tonight C5 G5 A5 But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes G5 I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light A5 A5 A5 With the ghost of old Tom Joad Refrain (solo without singing): F5 , C5 , G5 , A5 , G5 , A5 , A5 , A5 (x2)
