Highway patrolman
par Bruce Springsteen
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My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state
I´m a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8
I always done an honest job as honest as I could
I got a brother named Franky and Franky ain´t no good
Now ever since we was young kids it´s been the same come down
I get a call over the radio Franky´s in trouble downtown
Well if it was any other man, I´d put him straight away
But when it´s your brother sometimes you look the other way
Me and Franky laughin´ and drinkin´ nothin´ feels better than blood on blood
Takin´ turns dancin´ with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he´s strayin´ like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain´t no good
Well Franky went in the army back in 1965 I got a farm deferment settled down took Maria for my wife
But them wheat prices kept on droppin´ till it was like we were gettin´ robbed
Franky came home in ´68 and me I took this job
Yea we´re laughin´ and drinkin´ nothin´ feels better than blood on blood
Takin´ turns dancin´ with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he´s strayin´, teach him how to walk that line
Man turns his back on his family he ain´t no friend of mine
The night was like any other, I got a call ´bout quarter to nine
There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line
There was a kid lyin´ on the floor lookin´ bad, bleedin´ hard from his head there was a girl cryin´ at a table, it was Frank they said
Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights
I must of done 110 through Michigan county that night
It was out at the crossroads down round Willow bank
Seen a Buick with Ohio plates behind the wheel was Frank
Well I chased him through them county roads till a sign said Canadian border 5 miles from here
I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his taillights disappear
Me and Franky laughin´ and drinkin´ nothin´ feels better than blood on blood
Takin´ turns dancin´ with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he´s strayin´ like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain´t no good
I´m a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8
I always done an honest job as honest as I could
I got a brother named Franky and Franky ain´t no good
Now ever since we was young kids it´s been the same come down
I get a call over the radio Franky´s in trouble downtown
Well if it was any other man, I´d put him straight away
But when it´s your brother sometimes you look the other way
Me and Franky laughin´ and drinkin´ nothin´ feels better than blood on blood
Takin´ turns dancin´ with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he´s strayin´ like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain´t no good
Well Franky went in the army back in 1965 I got a farm deferment settled down took Maria for my wife
But them wheat prices kept on droppin´ till it was like we were gettin´ robbed
Franky came home in ´68 and me I took this job
Yea we´re laughin´ and drinkin´ nothin´ feels better than blood on blood
Takin´ turns dancin´ with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he´s strayin´, teach him how to walk that line
Man turns his back on his family he ain´t no friend of mine
The night was like any other, I got a call ´bout quarter to nine
There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line
There was a kid lyin´ on the floor lookin´ bad, bleedin´ hard from his head there was a girl cryin´ at a table, it was Frank they said
Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights
I must of done 110 through Michigan county that night
It was out at the crossroads down round Willow bank
Seen a Buick with Ohio plates behind the wheel was Frank
Well I chased him through them county roads till a sign said Canadian border 5 miles from here
I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his taillights disappear
Me and Franky laughin´ and drinkin´ nothin´ feels better than blood on blood
Takin´ turns dancin´ with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he´s strayin´ like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain´t no good
