Johnny Cash – Highway Patrolman

Lyrics Highway Patrolman – Johnny Cash

My name is Joe Roberts I work for the State
I’m a sergeant out on Perenville barracks No 8
I’ve 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’d get a call on a short way Frankie’s in trouble downtown
But if it was any other man I’d put him straight away
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 Maria

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 into 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’s gettin’ robbed
Frankie came home in ’68 and me I took this job

[Chorus]

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
The night was like any other I got a call bout the quarter of nine
There was trouble at 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 cryin’ at a table it was Frankie she said
I ran out and I jumped in my car then I hit the lights
I must have done about a hundred and ten to Michigan County that night
It was down by the crossroads out bout willow bank
Seen the Buick with Ohio plates behind the wheel was Frank
Well I chased him through them county roads
Till the sign said Canadian border five miles from here
Pulled over to the south out the highway watched his taillights disappeared

[Chorus]

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 ain’t no good

Written by: Bruce Springsteen
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