Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks    Goin' someplace there's no goin' back    Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the bridge    Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge    Shelter line stretchin' 'round the corner    Welcome to the new world order    Families sleepin' in their cars in the southwest    No home no job no peace no rest       Refrain: The highway is alive tonight    But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes    I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light    Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad       He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag    Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag    Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last    In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass    Got a one-way ticket to the promised land    You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand    Sleepin' on a pillow of solid rock    Bathin' in the city aqueduct       Refrain       Now tom said mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy    Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries    Where there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air    Look for me mom I'll be there    Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand    Or a decent job or a helpin' hand    Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free    Look in their eyes mom you'll see me.       Refrain