Highway Patrolman chords by
Bruce Springsteen

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Key: Db major•

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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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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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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Chords

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Capo: 1

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The original key of Highway Patrolman by Bruce Springsteen is Db major.

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