Rage against the machine
The ghost of tom joad
Renegades
Drop d tuning (dadgbe)
Greg de Boer
blueberry_sausage@hotmail.com

This tab is just the same as ver3 but with corrections.

Key:
~    let ring
bc   bend then choke
br   bend then rake back
D7#9 in the tab above that is the chord name
X    finger-muted note
(10) do not play note let the delay do it
/    slide down the neck on those strings

Riff 1

With a plectrum just scratch your first 3 strings with harmonics and delay on and turn up the volume as you go on.

Riff 2
e-----------------------------------------------
b-----------------------------------------------
g-----------------------------------------------
d-----------------------------------------------
a-------5---3---0---------------3----------3----
d---0---------------5---3---0-------5---3-------

Riff 3
e---------
b---------
g---------
d---0~----
a---0~----
d---0~----

Riff 4
e--------------------------
B--------------------------
G--------------------------
D--------------------------
A--0/3---------------3-----
D-------5---3---5----------

Riff 5
e---------------------------
b---13bc-------------13br---
g---------------------------
d---------------------------
a---------------------------
d---------------------------


Riff 6

Tap the metal bits on a pickup, which is in use.
Use the string above the pickup to do it.
On occasions scratch the string as well.




Riff 7
e-----------------------------
b----6--6--6------------------
g----5--5--5------------------
d----4--4--4------------------
a----5--5--5---3----------3---
d-----------------5---3-------
    D7#9

Riff 8
e------------------------
b---6----6---------------
g---5----5---------------
d---4----4---------------
a---5----5---------------
d------------------------
    D7#9

Riff 9
Play with wah pedal
e---------------------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------------------
G---------------------------------------------------
D---------------------------------------------------
A---5---0---3---0---5---3---0---3---3---5---3---5---
D---------------------------------------------------

Riff 10
Do all the finger-muting on the 1st fret
e-------------------------
b-------------------------
g-------------------------
d--X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X--
a--X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X--
d--X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X--

Riff 11
Have delay turned on. The last time you play this
dont play second part just let delay carry out the first part
e-----------------------------------
b-----------------------------------
g--10-(10)-(10)---------------------
d-----/-----------------------------
a----/---------------3-------0---3--
d---/--------------------5----------
  1st part             2nd part

Riff 12

Scratch and slide up the neck, with your plectrum on the ?a? string.

Order:

Riff 1 x1
Riff 2 x4
Riff 3 x1
Riff 4 x8
Riff 4 x4   Riff 5 x4
Riff 4 x4   Riff 5 x4  Riff 6 x4
Riff 2 x4
Riff 3 x1
Riff 7 x3
Riff 7 x1  Riff 8 x1
Riff 4 x8  Riff 9 x8
Riff 4 x4  Riff 9 x4  Riff 5 x4
Riff 4 x4  Riff 9 x4  Riff 5 x4  Riff 6 x4
Riff 2 x4
Riff 3 x1  Riff 12 x4
Riff 7 x3
Riff 7 x1  Riff 8 x1
Riff 4 x8  Riff 9 x8
Riff 10 x4  Riff 5 x4
Riff 10 x4  Riff 5 x4  Riff 11 x4
Riff 2 x3
Riff 2 x4  Riff 12 x4
Riff 3 x1

Note: When the riffs are next to each other it means you have to play that or those riffs over the top of the other riff or riffs.

Lyrics:

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 sleepin' 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