Highway Patrolman lyrics

Words and music by Bruce Springsteen
From Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen`s Nebraska

My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state
I`m a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8
I always done an honest job as honest as I could
I got a brother named Franky and Frank he ain`t no good
Now ever since we was young kids it`s been the same come down
I get a call on the shortwave Franky`s in trouble downtown
Well if it was any other man, I`d put him straight away
But when it`s your brother sometimes you look the other way

CHORUS 1:
Yeah, me and Franky laughing and drinking nothing feels better than blood on blood
Takin` turns dancin` with Marie as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood
I catch him when he`s straying like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain`t no good

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

CHORUS 2:
Yea we`re laughing and drinking nothing feels better than blood on blood
Takin` turns dancin` with Marie as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood
I catch him when he`s straying, teach him how to walk that line
Man turns his back on his family he ain`t no friend of mine

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 lying on the floor lookin` bad bleedin` hard from his head
There was a girl crying at a table and it was Frank, they said
Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights
But I
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