Highway Patrolman

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My name is Joe Roberts I work for
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 the state
I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville 
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barracks number 8
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I always done an honest job as 
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honest as I could
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I got a brother named Frankie and 
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Frankie ain't no good

Now ever since we was young kids 
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it's been the same come down
I get a call on the shortwave 
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Frankie's in trouble downtown
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Well if it was any other man, I'd
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 put him straight away
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But when it's your brother 
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sometimes you look the other way

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Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and 
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drinkin'
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Nothin' feels better than blood on 
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blood
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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as 
the band
Played "Night of the Johnstown 
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Flood"
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I catch him when he's strayin' 
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like any brother would
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Man turns his back on his family 
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well he just ain't no good

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Well Frankie went in the army back 
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in 1965
I got a farm deferment, settled 
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down, took Maria for my wife
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But them wheat prices kept on 
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droppin' till it was like we were 
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gettin'
robbed
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Frankie came home in `68, and me, I
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 took this job

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Yeah we're laughin' and drinkin'
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Nothin' feels better than blood on 
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blood
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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as 
the band
Played "Night of the Johnstown 
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Flood"
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I catch him when he's strayin' 
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teach him how to walk that line
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Man turns his back on his family he
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 ain't no friend of mine

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Well the night was like any other, I
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 got a call `bout quarter to nine
There was trouble in a roadhouse out
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 on the Michigan line
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There was a kid lyin' on the floor 
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lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his 
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head
There was a girl cry'n' at a table 
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and it was Frank, they said

Well I went out and I jumped in my 
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car and I hit the lights
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
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 `round Willow bank
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Seen a Buick with Ohio plates 
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behind the wheel was Frank

Well I chased him through them 
county roads
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Till a sign said "Canadian border 
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five miles from here"
I pulled over the side of the 
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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 
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blood
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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as 
the band
Played "Night of the Johnstown 
  A
Flood"
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I catch him when he's strayin' 
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teach him how to walk that line
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Man turns his back on his family 
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and he just ain't no good
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