Bruce Springsteen

Highway Patrolman

Bruce Springsteen

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Highway Patrolman

Year: 1982 - Album: Live In Dublin

	  		(Also done by Johnny Cash, but kinda ruined it) 
 
D                     G                   D 
My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state 
                                                    A 
I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8 
D                           G                D 
I always done an honest job as honest as I could 
                          A                         D 
I got a brother named Frankie and Frankie ain't no good 
 
                                       G                  D 
Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down 
                                                       A 
I get a call on the shortwave Frankie's in trouble downtown 
D                              G                    D 
Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away 
                          A                              D 
But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way 
 
             G                       D 
Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin' 
                G                    D 
Nothin' feels better than blood on blood 
           G                D 
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band 
                                 A 
Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood" 
    D                           G                D 
I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would 
                             A                          D 
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good 
 
                                     G    D 
Well Frankie went in the army back in 1965 
                                                         A 
I got a farm deferment, settled down, took Maria for my wife 
 D                                                G                        D 
But them wheat prices kept on droppin' till it was like we were gettin' 
robbed 
                      A                        D 
Frankie came home in `68, and me, I took this job 
 
              G              D 
Yeah we're laughin' and drinkin' 
               G                    D 
Nothin' feels better than blood on blood 
          G                 D 
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band 
                                 A 
Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood" 
    D                           G                           D 
I catch him when he's strayin' teach him how to walk that line 
                             A                         D 
Man turns his back on his family he ain't no friend of mine 
 
| D | G | A | D | D | 
 
                                            G                     D 
Well the night was like any other, I got a call `bout quarter to nine 
                                                      A 
There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line 
             D                                   G                      D 
There was a kid lyin' on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head 
                                   A                  D 
There was a girl cry'n' at a table and it was Frank, they said 
 
                                       G              D 
Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights 
                                                                    A 
Well I musta done one hundred and ten through Michigan county that night 
       D                       G                  D 
It was out at the crossroads, down `round Willow bank 
                        A                           D 
Seen a Buick with Ohio plates behind the wheel was Frank 
 
 
Well I chased him through them county roads 
        G                                     D 
Till a sign said "Canadian border five miles from here" 
                               A                                    D 
I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his tail-lights disappear 
 
        G                    D 
Me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin' 
              G                     D 
Nothin' feels better than blood on blood 
         G                  D 
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band 
                                 A 
Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood" 
    D                          G                           D 
I catch him when he's strayin' teach him how to walk that line 
                            A                          D     | D | G | D | 
Man turns his back on his family and he just ain't no good 
 
 
  D  G  A 
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