Highway Patrolman - Bruce Springsteen | Guitar Chords | VChords

[Verse 1]
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My name is Joe Roberts
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 I work for the state
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 I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville
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Barracks Number eight
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 I always done an honest job
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 As honest as I could
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I got a brother named Frankie
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And Frankie ain’t no good

[Verse 2]
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 Now, ever since we was youngkids
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It’s been the same come down
I 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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But when it’s your brother
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Sometimes you look the otherway

[Chorus (1)]
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Yeah, me and Frankie laugh in’ and drinkin’
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Nothin’ feels better than blood on blood
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Tak in’ turns dancin’ with Maria
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Asthebandplayed “NightoftheJohnstownFlood”
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Icatch him when he’s strayin’
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 Likeanybrotherwould
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Amanturnshisbackonhisfamily
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Well, he just ain’t no good

[Verse 3]
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Well, Frankie went in the army
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Back in nineteen sixty five
I got a farm deferment
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Settled down, took Maria for my wife
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But themwheatprices kept on droppin’
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'Til it was like we were getting robbed
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Frankie came home in sixty eight
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And me, I took this job

[Chorus (2)]
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     G                            D
Yeah, we’re 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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As the band played “Night of the Johnstown Flood”
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Icatchhim when he’s strayin’
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     Teach him how to walk that line
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A man turns his back on his family
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He ain’t no friend of mine

[Verse 4]
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         Well, the nightwas like any other
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I got a call'bout quarter to nine
There was trouble in a roadhouse
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Out on theMichigan line
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There was a kid lyin’ onthefloor, lookin’bad
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Bleedin’ hard from his head
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 Theregirl cryin’ at a table
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     And it was Frank, they said

[Verse 5]
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Well, I went out and I jumped in my car
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     And I hit the lights
Well, I must’ve done a hundred and ten
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Through Michigan County that night
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It was out at the crossroads
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Down     ’round Willow Bank
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Seen a Buick with Ohio    plates
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Behind the wheel was Frank
Well, I chased him through them county roads
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'Til a sign     said “Canadian border, five miles from here”
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I pulled over on the side of the highway
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And watched his taillights disappear

[Chorus (3)]
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   Gadd9                            D
Me and  Frankie laughin’ and drinkin’
               Gadd9
Nothin’ feels     better than blood on blood
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 Takin’ turns dancin’ with Maria
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As the band played “Night of the Johnstown     Flood”
I catch him when he’s strayin’
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 Like any brother would
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 A man turns his back on his family
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Well, he just ain’t no good

[Fade-Out]
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