Highway Patrolman chords by Johnny Cash
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Intro 1
(G major)
Verse 1
My name is Joe Roberts (G major) (C major)
I work for the State (G major)
I'm a sergeant out on
Perenville, barracks No. (D major) 8
I've (G major) always done an honest job,
(C major) honest as I could (G major)
Got a brother named Frankie, (D major)
Frankie ain't no (G major) good
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Verse 2
(G major)
Well, ever since we were young kids
(C major) it's been the same come down (G major)
I'd get a call on a short way
Frankie's in trouble down (D major) town
But (G major) if it was any other man (C major) I'd put
him straight away (G major)
But sometimes when it's your brother (D major)
you look the other way
(G major)
Verse 3
Yeah me (C major) and Frankie laughin' and drinkin' (G major)
nothin' feels (C major) better than blood on blood (G major)
Takin' turn (C major) s dancin' with Mari (G major) a
While the band played 'The Night
Of The Johnstown (D major) (G major) Flood'
Verse 4
I catch him when he's strayin' (G major)
(C major) like any brother should (G major)
Man turns his back on his
(D major) family he ain't no good
(G major)
Verse 5
Well Frankie went into the
army back in (C major) (G major) 1965
I got a farm deferment settled
down took Maria for my wife (D major)
But them (G major) wheat prices kept on droppin' till
it was (C major) like we's gettin' robbed (G major)
Frankie came home in '68 and
(D major) me I took this (G major) job
Verse 6
Yeah me (C major) and Frankie laughin' and drink (G major) in'
nothin' feels (C major) better than blood on blood (G major)
Tak (C major) in' turns dancin' with Maria (G major)
While the band played 'The Night
Of The John (C major) stown (D major) (G major) Flood'
Verse 7
I catch him when he's strayin' (G major)
teach (C major) him how to walk that line (G major)
Man turns his back on his family (D major) ain't
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no friend of mine
(G major) (C major) (G major) (D major)
(G major)
Verse 8
The (G major) night was like any other I got a call (C major)
'bout the quarter of nine (G major)
There was trouble at a roadhouse
out on the Michigan line (D major)
There was a kid (G major) on the floor lookin'
bad (C major) bleedin' hard from his head (G major)
There was a girl cryin' at a
table (D major) it was Frankie she said
(G major)
Verse 9
I ran out and I jumped in my car
(C major) then I hit the light (G major) s
I must have done about a hundred and
ten to Michigan County that night (D major)
It was (G major) down by the crossroads
(C major) out by willow bank (G major)
Seen the Buick with Ohio (D major) plates
behind the wheel was (G major) Frank
Verse 10
(G major) Well I chased him through
them county roads
Till the sign (C major) said Canadian border
(G major) five miles from here
Pulled over to the south (D major) out the highway
watched his tail (G major) lights disappeared
Verse 11
Yeah me (C major) and Frankie laughin' and drink (G major) in'
nothin' feels (C major) better than blood on blood (G major)
Tak (C major) in' turns dancin' with Mari (G major) a
While the band played 'The Night Of
The Johnstown (D major) (G major) Flood'
Verse 12
I catch him when he's strayin' (G major)
(C major) like any brother should (G major)
Man turns his back on his (D major) family,
he ain't no (G major) good
Highway Patrolman
Johnny Cash
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