Highway Patrolman chords by Johnny Cash

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Intro 1

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 on
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Perenville, barracks No. 8
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I've always done an honest job,
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honest as I could
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Got a brother named Frankie,
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Frankie ain't no good

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Verse 2
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Well, ever since we were young kids
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it's been the same come down
I'd get a call on a short way
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Frankie's in trouble downtown
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But if it was any other man I'd put
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him straight away
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But sometimes when it's your brother
you look the other way
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Verse 3
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Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'
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nothin' feels better than blood on blood
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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria
While the band played 'The Night
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Of The Johnstown Flood'

Verse 4
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I catch him when he's strayin'
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like any brother should
Man turns his back on his
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family he ain't no good
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Verse 5
Well Frankie went into the
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army back in 1965
I got a farm deferment settled
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down took Maria for my wife
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But them wheat prices kept on droppin' till
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it was like we's gettin' robbed
Frankie came home in '68 and
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me I took this job

Verse 6
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Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'
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nothin' feels better than blood on blood
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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria
While the band played 'The Night
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Of The Johnstown Flood'

Verse 7

I catch him when he's strayin'

teach him how to walk that line

Man turns his back on his family ain't

Interlude 1

no friend of mine

Verse 8
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The night was like any other I got a call
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'bout the quarter of nine
There was trouble at a roadhouse
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out on the Michigan line
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There was a kid on the floor lookin'
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bad bleedin' hard from his head
There was a girl cryin' at a
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table it was Frankie she said
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Verse 9
I ran out and I jumped in my car
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then I hit the lights
I must have done about a hundred and
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ten to Michigan County that night
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It was down by the crossroads
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out by willow bank
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Seen the Buick with Ohio plates
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behind the wheel was Frank

Verse 10
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Well I chased him through
them county roads
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Till the sign said Canadian border
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five miles from here
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Pulled over to the south out the highway
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watched his taillights disappeared

Verse 11
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Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'
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nothin' feels better than blood on blood
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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria
While the band played 'The Night Of
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The Johnstown Flood'