Highway Patrolman
Ton : DEnglish
My name Dis Joe Roberts I workG for the stateD
I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number eAight
I Dalways done an honest job as hGonest as I cDould
I got a brother named FArankie and Frankie ain't no gDood
NDow ever since we was young kids it's bGeen the same come dDown
I get a call on the shortwave Frankie's in trouble dAowntown
Well if iDt was any other man I'd pGut him straight awDay
But when it's your broAther sometimes you look the other wDay
YGeah me and Frankie laughin' and dDrinkin'
Nothin' fGeels better than blood on bDlood
TGakin' turns dancin' with MDaria as the band
Played "Night of the Johnstown FAlood"
ID catch him when he's strayin' lGike any brother wDould
Man turns his baAck on his familDy well he just ain't no good
Well Frankie 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 droppin'
till it was like we were gettin' robbed
Frankie came home in 68 and me I took this job
Yeah we're laughin' and drinkin'
Nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria
as the band Played "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 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 lyin' on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head
There was a girl cry'n' at a table and it was Frank they said
Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights
Well I musta done one hundred and ten through Michigan county that night
It was out at the crossroads down round Willow bank
Seen a Buick with Ohio plates. Behind the wheel was Frank
Well I chased him through them county roads
Till a sign said "Canadian border five miles from here"
I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his tail-lights disappear