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Tom Joad (Parts 1 & 2) - Woody Guthrie
Tom Joad got out of the old
McAlester Pen

There he got his parole
After four long years on
A man killing charge
Tom Joad come a walking down
The road poor boy
Tom Joad come a walking
Down the road

Tom Joad he met a truck driving man

There he caught him a ride
He said: "I just got loose from
McAlester's Pen
On a charge called Homicide

A charge called
Homicide "

That truck rolled away in
A cloud of dust

Tommy turned his face toward home
He met Preacher Casey
And they had a little drink
But they found that his family
They was gone

He found that his family they was gone

He found his mother's old fashion shoe
Found his daddy's hat

And he found little Muley
And Muley said:
"They've been tractored
Out by the cats

They've been tractored out by the cats "

Tom Joad walked down
To the neighbors farm

Found his family
They took Preacher Casey
And loaded in a car
And his mother said
"We got to git away "

His mother said
'We got to get away "

Now the twelve of the Joads
Made a mighty heavy load
But Grandpa Joad did cry
He picked up a handful of land
In his hand
Said: "I'm stayin' with the farm till I die

Yes I'm stayin' with my farm till I die "

They fed him short ribs
And coffee and soothing syrup
And Grandpa Joad did die
They buried Grandpa Joad
By the side of the road
Buried Grandma on the California side

They buried Grandma on
The California side

They stood on a Mountain
And they looked to the West And it
Looked like the promised land

That bright green valley with a
River running through
There was work for every single hand
They thought
There was work for every single hand

The Joads rolled away to Jungle Camp

There they cooked a stew
And the hungry little kids
Of the Jungle Camp Said: "We'd like to
Have some too "

Said: "We'd like to have some too "

Now a Deputy Sheriff fired
Loose at a man
Shot a woman in the back

Before he could take his aim again

Preacher Casey dropped
Him in his track
Preacher Casey dropped
Him in his track

They handcuffed Casey
And they took him to Jail

And then he got away
And he met Tom Joad on
The old river bridge
And these few words he did say
Poor boy
These few words he did say

"I preached for the Lord a mighty
Long time

Preached about the rich
And the poor
Us workin' folks got to
All get together
Cause we ain't got a chance anymore

We ain't got a chance anymore "

The Deputies come and Tom
And Casey run
To the bridge
Where the water run down

But the vigilante they hit Casey with a club
They laid Preacher Casey
On the ground
Poor Casey
They laid Preacher Casey
On the ground

Tom Joad he grabbed that Deputy's club

Hit him over the head

Tom Joad took flight
In the dark rainy night
A Deputy and a Preacher
Lying dead two men
A Deputy and a Preacher lying dead

Tom run back
Where his mother was asleep

He woke her up out of bed

Then he kissed goodbye to the mother
That he loved
Said what Preacher Casey said
Tom Joad
He said what Preacher Casey said

"Ever'body might be just one big soul
Well it looks that a way to me

Everywhere
That you look in the day or night

That's where I'm gonna be Ma
That's where I'm gonna be

Wherever little children are
Hungry and cry

Wherever people ain't free

Wherever men are fightin'
For their rights

That's where I'm gonna be Ma

That's where I'm a gonna be