Highway Patrolman chords by
Whitey Morgan

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Key: D major

Intro 1

My name is Joe Roberts,

Verse 1
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I work for the state
I'm a sergeant out on
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Perenville barracks number 8
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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Ever since we were young kids,
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it's been the same come down
I'd get a call on the short wave,
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Frankie's 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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A A 
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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
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played "The Night of the Johnstown Flood"
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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

Verse 4
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A A 
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Well, Frankie went into the
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army back in 1965
I got a farm deferment, settled down,
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took Maria  for my wife
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A A 
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But them wheat prices kept on droppin',
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G G 
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D D 
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'til it was like we's gettin' robbed
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Frankie came home in '68, and me,
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I took this job

Verse 5
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D D 
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Yeah, me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin',
G G 
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D D 
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nothin' feels better than blood on blood
G G 
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D D 
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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria while the band
A A 
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played "The Night of the Johnstown Flood"
D D 
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I  catch him when he's strayin',
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D D 
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teach him how to walk that line
Man turns his back on his fam
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ily ain't no friend of mine
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Verse 6
The night was like any other,
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I got a call 'bout a quarter to 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' bad,
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bleedin' hard from his head
There was a girl cryin' at a table,
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it was Frankie, she said

Verse 7
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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
A A 
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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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A A 
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Seen the Buick with Ohio plates,
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behind the wheel was Frank

Verse 8

Well, I chased him through them county roads,

'til the sign said Canadian border five miles from here

Pulled over to the side out the highway,

watched the taillights disappear

Verse 9
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Yeah, me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin',
G G 
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D D 
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nothin' feels better than blood on blood
G G 
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D D 
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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria while the band
A A 
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played "The Night of the Johnstown Flood"
D D 
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I catch him when he's strayin',
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D D 
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like any brother should
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Man turns his back on his family,
he ain't no good

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