[ti:Tom Joad (Part 1)]
[ar:Woody Guthrie]
[al:Greatest Folk Songs]
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[00:00.00]I Will Love You All My Life - Big Jim
[00:24.21]Tom Joad got out of the old McAlester Pen
[00:29.04]There he got his parole
[00:32.51]After four long years on a man killing charge
[00:36.72]Tom Joad come a walking down the road
[00:39.58]Poor boy
[00:40.60]Tom Joad come a walking down the road
[00:44.56]Tom Joad he met a truck driving man
[00:49.05]There he caught him a ride
[00:52.42]He said: "I just got loose from
[00:54.84]McAlester's Pen On a charge called Homicide
[01:00.15]A charge called Homicide "
[01:04.05]That truck rolled away
[01:05.99]In a cloud of dust
[01:08.53]Tommy turned his face toward home
[01:11.90]He met Preacher Casey
[01:13.83]And they had a little drink
[01:15.79]But they found
[01:16.76]That his family they was gone
[01:19.63]He found that his family
[01:21.55]They was gone
[01:23.42]He found his mother's old fashion shoe
[01:27.91]Found his daddy's hat
[01:31.16]And he found little Muley and Muley said:
[01:35.25]"They've been tractored out by the cats
[01:38.93]They've been tractored out by the cats "
[01:43.79]Tom Joad walked down to the neighbors farm
[01:48.19]Found his family
[01:51.67]They took Preacher Casey
[01:53.51]And loaded in a car
[01:55.40]And his mother said "We got to git away "
[01:59.43]His mother said "We got to get away "
[02:03.99]Now the twelve of the Joads
[02:05.90]Made a mighty heavy load
[02:08.18]But Grandpa Joad did cry
[02:11.68]He picked up a handful of land in his hand
[02:15.46]Said: "I'm staying with the farm till I die
[02:19.37]Yes I'm staying with my farm till I die "
[02:23.89]They fed him short ribs
[02:25.52]And coffee and soothing syrup
[02:28.39]And Grandpa Joad did die
[02:31.80]They buried Grandpa Joad
[02:33.75]By the side of the road
[02:36.21]Buried Grandma on the California side
[02:39.43]They buried Grandma on the California side
[02:44.19]They stood on a Mountain
[02:46.11]And they looked to the West
[02:48.18]And it looked like the promised land
[02:51.93]That bright green valley with a
[02:54.36]River running through
[02:55.74]There was work for every single hand
[02:58.82]They thought
[02:59.55]There was work for every single hand