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Have You Seen Tom Joad

from One Kind Of Free by Ranchers for Peace

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Another one (like "That Bloody Sun") that came along a little late for our 2nd EP in 2013. We didn't think it would take this long for us to get around to our 3rd studio project -- but it did, and here we are: still "doing what we can to make giving a damn cool again," not unlike Mr. Steinbeck himself.

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HAVE YOU SEEN TOM JOAD

It could be any morning and it could be any day
He’ll show up without warning and leave in the same way
From Bakersfield to Jackson where the grapes of wrath are stowed
Until everyone is asking, have you seen Tom Joad

Well, he starts a conversation in a coffee shop or bar
He wonders if our nation can survive the way things are
With Liberty and Justice gone where all the money’s flowed
While those left in the dust ask, have you seen Tom Joad
Have you seen Tom Joad

He’s the big idea they can’t erase
And can’t run out of town
He’s the joker who will trump their ace
When the final deal goes down

Well, he might be with the strikers when they’re holding out for more
And you may have seen his likeness standing in the jailhouse door
From Memphis to Topeka on the Revolution Road
Where the voice of truth is speaking, you have seen Tom Joad

So let the cradle rock, though the bough may break
And Congressmen may cry
There’s a higher law than the kind they make
And a ghost can never die

Well, it could be any morning and it could be any night
Wherever the lines are forming on the side of what is right
And when everybody’s children own their fair share of the load
We can let him rest, but ‘til then, have you seen Tom Joad
Have you seen Tom Joad

Dear God yes, this wheel’s on fire, getting ready to explode
But it’s stopping to inquire, have you seen Tom Joad
Have you seen Tom Joad

Well, it could be any morning

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from One Kind Of Free, released October 7, 2022
Produced by R4P
Studio O.V., Oak View CA
& Off The Pike Mic, Nashville TN

Vocals, Melodica -- Ray Duncan
Guitar, Vocals, Audio Mayhem -- Charles Duncan

(c) 2013 C. M. Duncan, Wasteland Music/BMI
(p) 2022 O-V Sonic Recordings

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