Highway Patrolman

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My name is Joel Roberts I work for the state
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I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number eight
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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


[Chorus]
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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


[Verse]
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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' robbed
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Frankie came home in `68, and me, I took this job


[Chorus]
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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


[Verse]
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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 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 night
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It was out at the crossroads, down `round Willow bank
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Seen a Buick with Ohio plates. Behind the wheel was Frank
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Well I chased him through them county roads Till a sign said "Canadian border five miles from 
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here"
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I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his tail-lights disappear


[Chorus]
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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