I Will Love You All My Life - Big Jim

Tom Joad got out of the old McAlester Pen

There he got his parole

After four long years on a man killing charge

Tom Joad come a walking down the road

Poor boy

Tom Joad come a walking down the road

Tom Joad he met a truck driving man

There he caught him a ride

He said: "I just got loose from

McAlester's Pen On a charge called Homicide

A charge called Homicide "

That truck rolled away

In a cloud of dust

Tommy turned his face toward home

He met Preacher Casey

And they had a little drink

But they found

That his family they was gone

He found that his family

They was gone

He found his mother's old fashion shoe

Found his daddy's hat

And he found little Muley and Muley said:

"They've been tractored out by the cats

They've been tractored out by the cats "

Tom Joad walked down to the neighbors farm

Found his family

They took Preacher Casey

And loaded in a car

And his mother said "We got to git away "

His mother said "We got to get away "

Now the twelve of the Joads

Made a mighty heavy load

But Grandpa Joad did cry

He picked up a handful of land in his hand

Said: "I'm staying with the farm till I die

Yes I'm staying with my farm till I die "

They fed him short ribs

And coffee and soothing syrup

And Grandpa Joad did die

They buried Grandpa Joad

By the side of the road

Buried Grandma on the California side

They buried Grandma on the California side

They stood on a Mountain

And they looked to the West

And it looked like the promised land

That bright green valley with a

River running through

There was work for every single hand

They thought

There was work for every single hand