Highway Patrolman

Bruce Springsteen

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  S1:
  My name is Joe Roberts 

  I work for the state 

  I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville 

  Barracks number eight 

  I always done an honest job 

  As honest as I could 

  I got a brother named Franky 

  And Franky ain't no good
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  S2:
  Now ever since we was young kids 

  It's been the same come down 

  I get a call on the shortwave 

  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 
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  R1:
  Yeah, 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
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  S3:
  Well, Franky went in the army  

  Back in nineteen sixty-five 

  I got a farm deferment 

  Settled down, took Maria for my wife 

  But them wheat prices kept on droppin'  

  'Til it was like we were gettin' robbed 

  Franky came home in sixty-eight  

  And me I took this job
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  R1:
  Yeah, 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
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  S4:
  Well, 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 

  Was a girl cryin' at a table  

  And it was Frank, they said
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  S5:
  Well, I went out and I jumped in my car  

  And I hit the lights 

  Well, I musta done a hundred and ten  

  Through Michigan County that night 

  It was out at the crossroads 

  It's down 'round Willow bank 

  I've seen a Buick with Ohio plates 

  Behind the wheel was Frank
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  S6:
  Well I chased him through them county roads 

  'Til a sign said: "Canadian border five miles from here" 

  I pulled over the side of the highway  

  And watched his taillights disappear 
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  R1:
  Yeah, 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
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  R1:
  Yeah, 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