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Highway Patrolman chords by
Johnny Cash
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Key: A major•BPM: 130
Intro 1
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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 on
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Perenville, barracks No. 8
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G

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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
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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G

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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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G

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nothin' feels better than blood on blood
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C

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G

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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria

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Of The Johnstown Flood'
Verse 7
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I catch him when he's strayin'
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teach him how to walk that line
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Man turns his back on his family ain't
Interlude 1

no friend of mine
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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

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The Johnstown Flood'
Verse 12
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I catch him when he's strayin'
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like any brother should
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Man turns his back on his family,
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he ain't no good

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