Highway Patrolman

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

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    Ever since we were     young 
kids
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    It's been the same come     down
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    I get a call on the    shortwave
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    Frankie's in trouble down -  
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   town
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Well    if it was any    other man
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    I'd put him straight a -    way
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But    sometimes when it's your     
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brother
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    You look the other     way

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Yeah     me and Frankie laughin' 
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and     drinkin'
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Nothin' feels     better than blood
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 on     blood
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Takin'    turns dancin' with Ma -   
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  ria
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While the    band played "the    
Night of the
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Johnstown     Flood"

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    I catch him when he's    
strayin'
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    Like any brother    should
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    Man turns his back on his    
family
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    He ain't no    good

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Well    Frankie went in the     army
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Back in    nineteensixty -    five
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    I got a farm de -    ferment,
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Settled    down, took Maria for my 
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    wife
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But them    wheat prices kept on    
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droppin'
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Till it was    like we were gettin'
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    robbed
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    Frankie came home in     
sixtyeight
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    Me, I took this    job

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Yeah    me and Frankie laughin' and
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    drinkin'
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Nothin' feels    better than blood 
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on    blood
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    Takin' turns dancin' with Ma -  
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  ria
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While the band played "the    Night 
of the
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Johnstown    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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    Ain't no friend of    mine

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

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    I ran out and I    jumped in my 
car
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    Then I hit the    lights
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    I musta done a    hundred and 
ten
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Through    Michigan county that  
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   night
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It was    down by the    crossroads,
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    Out by Willow    bank
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Seen a     Buick with O -     hio 
plates
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    Behind the wheel was    Frank
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Well I    chased him through them   
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 county roads
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Till a    sign said "Canadian 
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border    five miles from here"
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    Pulled over the     side of the 
highway
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    Watched his tail-lights    
disappear

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Yeah    me and Frankie laughin' and
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    drinkin'
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Nothin' feels    better than blood 
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on    blood
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    Takin' turns dancin' with Ma -  
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  ria
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While the band played "the    Night 
of the
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Johnstown     Flood"

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    I catch him when he's   strayin'
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    Like any brother    should
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Man turns his back on his     family
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He ain't no      good