who was tom joad in the bruce willis song?

Question

shouldn't they have featured the song as a title theme when he starred in Armageddon? [kinda great depression like]

Answer 1

Tom Joad is a fictional character from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. He embodies the politicalization of the common man when faced with injustice

Answer 2

Tom Joad is a fictional character from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. He embodies the politicalization of the common man when faced with injustice.

The Ghost of Tom Joad: Music: Bruce Springsteen

Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks
Goin' someplace 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 sittin' down here in the campfire light
Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad

He pulls prayer book out of his sleeping 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 gun in your hand
Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
Bathin' in the city aqueduct

The highway is alive tonight
But 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 newborn 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 place 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."

The highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
I'm sittin' downhere in the campfire light
With the ghost of old Tom Joad


Copyright © Bruce Springsteen (ASCAP)

Columbia Records

Answer 3

Tom Joad is the oldest son in John Steinbecks " Grapes of Wrath" He fought the police corrupt system during the great depression in the 1930s. See the movie with Henry Fonda as Tom.....Kenny

Answer 4

You mean Bruce Springsteen.

Tom Joad is a character from John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.

Answer 5

Well, I haven't heard the song, but Tom Joad was played by Henry Fonda in "The Grapes of Wrath", a kind of everyman who represented the Oklahoma people who came West, looking for a better life during the Depression

Answer 6

I think you mean Bruce SPRINGSTEEN.

Tom Joad was a character in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.

Answer 7

You are so confused I don't know where to begin!