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Lyrics for Highway Patrolman by Dar Williams:
| | | Artist: | Dar Williams |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Highway Patrolman | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 91 | | | | Lyrics: | Words and music by Bruce Springsteen
From Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's
Nebraska
My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state
I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville
barracks number 8
I always done an honest job as honest as I could
I got a brother named
Franky and Frank he ain't no good
Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come
down
I get a call on the shortwave Franky's in trouble downtown
Well if it was any other
man, I'd put him straight away
But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other
way
CHORUS 1:
Yeah, me and Franky laughing and drinking nothing feels better than blood
on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Marie as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood
I
catch him when he's straying like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family well he
just ain't no good
Well Franky went in the army back in 1965
I got a farm deferment,
settled down, took Maria for my wife
But them wheat prices kept on dropping 'till it was like we
were getting robbed
Franky came home in '68, and me, I took this job
CHORUS 2:
Yea
we're laughing and drinking nothing feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with
Marie as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood
I catch him when he's straying, teach him
how to walk that line
Man turns his back on his family he ain't no friend of mine
Well
the night was like any other, I got a call 'bout quarter to nine
There was trouble in a
roadhouse out on the Michigan line
There was a kid lying on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard
from his head
There was a girl crying at a table and it was Frank, they said
Well I went out
and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights
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