Highway Patrolman Lyrics

Intro:
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
Honest as I could
Got a brother named Frankie
Frankie ain't no good
Ever since we were young kids
It's been the same come down
I get a call on the shortwave
Frankie's in trouble down - town
Well if it was any other man
I'd put him straight a - way
But sometimes when it's your brother
You look the other way
Chorus:
Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'
Nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Ma - ria
While the band played "the Night of the
Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he's strayin'
Like any brother should
Man turns his back on his family
He ain't no good
Well Frankie went in the army
Back in nineteensixty - five
I got a farm de - ferment,
Settled down, took Maria for my wife
But them wheat prices kept on droppin'
Till it was like we were gettin' robbed
Frankie came home in sixtyeight
Me, I took this job
Chorus:
Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'
Nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Ma - ria
While the band played "the Night of the
Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he's strayin'
Teach him how to walk that line
Man turns his back on his family
Ain't no friend of mine
Break:
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 on the floor lookin' bad
Bleedin' hard from his head
There was a girl cry'n' at a table
It was Frank, she said
I ran out and I jumped in my car
Then I hit the lights
I musta done a hundred and ten
Through Michigan county that night
It was down by the crossroads,
Out by Willow bank
Seen a Buick with O - hio plates
Behind the wheel was Frank
Well I chased him through them county roads
Till a sign said "Canadian border five miles from here"
Pulled over the side of the highway
Watched his tail-lights disappear
Chorus:
Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'
Nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Ma - ria
While the band played "the Night of the
Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he's strayin'
Like any brother should
Man turns his back on his family
He ain't no good//