Hat tip to Ben Rebel for sending this link.
Tom Joad, of course, is the main character in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. Partial lyrics to the song below:
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."
Well the highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of old Tom Joad.
Read the book and see the movie.
Henry Fonda as Tom Joad (1940).
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