Highway Patrolman chords by
Bruce Springsteen

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Verse 1
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My name is Joe Roberts,
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I work for the state
I'm a sergeant out of
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Perrineville, barracks number eight
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I always done an honest job,
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as honest as I could
I got a brother named Franky,
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and Franky ain't no good

Verse 2
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Now ever since we was young kids,
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it's been the same come down
I get a call on the shortwave, Franky's
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in trouble downtown
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Well if it was any other man,
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I'd put him straight away
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But when it's your brother sometimes
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you look the other way
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Yeah, me

Verse 3
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and Franky 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',
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like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family,
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well, he just ain't no good

Verse 4
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Well, Franky went in the army
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back in nineteen sixty-five
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I   I got a farm deferment,
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settled down, took Maria for my  wife
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But them wheat prices kept on droppin' 'til it
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was like we were gettin' robbed
Franky came home in sixty-eight
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and and me I took this job
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Yeah,

Verse 5
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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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Ab Ab 4
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played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
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I   catch him when he's strayin',
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teach him how to walk that line
Man turns his back on his family,
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he ain't no friend of mine

Interlude 1

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Verse 6
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Well, the night was like any other,
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I got a call 'bout quarter to nine
There was trouble in a roadhouse
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out on the Michigan line
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There was a   kid lyin' on the floor lookin' bad,
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bleedin' hard from his head
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Was a girl cryin' at a table and it was Frank,
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they said

Verse 7
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Well, I went out and I jumped in my
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car and I hit the lights
Well, I musta done a hundred and ten
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through Michigan County that night
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It was out at the crossroads,
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down 'round Willow bank
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Seen a Buick with Ohio plates,
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behind the wheel was Frank

Verse 8
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Well I chased him through
them county roads
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'Til a sign said "Canadian bor
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der five miles from here"
I pulled over the side of the highway an
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d watched his taillights   disappear

Verse 9
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Me and Franky 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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Ab Ab 4
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played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
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I   catch him when he's strayin'
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like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family,
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he just ain't no good

Outro 1

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