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Highway Patrolman

Bruce Springsteen

Intro:

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My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state

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I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8

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I always done an honest job as honest as I could

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I got a brother named Frankie and Frankie ain't no good

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Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down

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I get a call on the shortwave - Frankie's in trouble downtown

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Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away

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But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way

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Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'

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Nothin' feels better than blood on blood

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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band

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Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"

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I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would

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Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good

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Well Frankie went in the army back in 1965

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I got a farm deferment, settled down, took Maria for my wife

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But them wheat prices kept on droppin' till it was like we were gettin'
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Robbed

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Frankie came home in `68, and me, I took this job

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Yeah we're laughin' and drinkin'

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Nothin' feels better than blood on blood

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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band

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Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"

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I catch him when he's strayin' teach him how to walk that line

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Man turns his back on his family he ain't no friend of mine

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Well the night was like any other, I got a call `bout quarter to nine

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There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line

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There was a kid lyin' on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his

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Head

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There was a girl cry'n' at a table and it was Frank, they said
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Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights

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Well I musta done one hundred and ten through Michigan county that

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night
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It was out at the crossroads, down `round Willow Bank

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‘S in a Buick with Ohio plates. Behind the wheel was Frank

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Well I chased him through them county roads

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Till a sign said "Canadian border five miles from here"

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I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his tail-lights

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disappear

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Me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'

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Nothin' feels better than blood on blood

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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band

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Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"

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I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would

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Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good