Bruce Springsteen
Pays Tribute to KWRU
At his September 15th concert
at the 20,000-seat First Union Center in Philadelphia, rocker Bruce Springsteen
took time to recognize the work of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union.
The Boss talked to the silent crowd about the March of the Americas and
the struggle for the human rights to housing, health care, and living wage
jobs. He urged everyone to do what they could to contribute to the March.
Then he dedicated his song The Ghost of Tom Joad to the KWRU (see lyrics
below). At the end of the show, Bruce directed everyone to stop by the table
where leaders of the KWRU were passing out information.
- The Ghost of Tom Joad --
Bruce Springsteen
- Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks
- Goin' some place, there's no goin' back
- Highway Patrol choppers comin' up over
the ridge
- Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
- Shelter line stretchin' round the corner
- Welcome to the new world order
- Families sIeepin' in their cars in the
southwest
- No home, no Job, no peace, no rest
- The highway is alive tonight
- But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where
it goes
- I'm sitting down here in the campfire
light
- Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad
- He pulls prayer book out of his sleepin'
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 a gun
in your hand
- sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
- Bathing in the city aqueduct
- The highway is alive tonight
- Where it's headed everybody knows
- I'm sittin' down here in the campfire
light
- Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad
- Now Tom Said; "Mom, wherever there's
a cop beatin' a guy
- Wherever a hungry new born baby cries
- Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood
and hatred in the air
- Look for me mom I'll be there
- Wherever there's somebody fightin' for
a pIace to stand
- Or 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 sitting down here in the campfire
light
- Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad.
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Bruce
Springsteen Pays Tribute