Bruce Springsteen - Highway patrolman

^DMy name is Joe Roberts ^GI work for the ^Dstate I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number ^A8 ^DI always done an honest job ^Gas honest as I ^Dcould I got a brother named ^AFranky and Frank he ain't no ^Dgood Now ever since we was young kids it's ^Gbeen the same come ^Ddown I get a call on the shortwave Franky's in trouble down^Atown ^DWell if it was any other man, ^GI'd put him straight a^Dway But when it's your ^Abrother sometimes you look the other ^Dway

Yeah, me and ^GFranky laughing and ^Ddrinking no^Athing ^Gfeels better than blood on ^Dblood ^ATakin' ^Gturns dancin' with ^DMarie as the band played Night of the Johnstown ^AFlood ^DI catch him when he's straying ^Glike any brother ^Dwould Man turns his back on his ^Afamily well he just ain't no ^Dgood

Well Franky went in the army ^Gback in 196^D5 I got a farm deferment, settled down, took Maria for my ^Awife But ^Dthem wheat prices kept on dropping 'till it was ^Glike we were getting ^Drobbed Franky came home in `^A68, and me, I took this ^Djob

^GYea we're laughing and ^Ddrinking no^Athing ^Gfeels better than blood on ^Dblood Ta^Akin' ^Gturns dancin' with ^DMarie as the band played Night of the Johnstown ^AFlood ^DI catch him when he's straying, ^Gteach him how to walk that ^Dline Man turns his back on his ^Afamily he ain't no friend of ^Dmin^Ge ^{A D}

Well the night was like any other, I got a ^Gcall `bout quarter to ^Dnine There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan ^Aline There was a^D kid lying on the floor lookin' bad ^Gbleedin' hard from his ^Dhead There was a girl crying at a ^Atable and it was Frank, they ^Dsaid Well I went out and I jumped in my car^G and I hit the ^Dlights But I must of done a hundred and ten through Michigan county that ^Anight ^DIt was out at the crossroads, ^Gdown round Willow ^Dbank Seen a Buick with O^Ahio plates behind the wheel was ^DFrank

'till a ^Gsign said Canadian border ^Dfive miles from here I pulled over to the side of the ^Ahighway and watched his taillights disa^Dppear

Me and ^GFranky laughing and ^Ddrinking not^Ahing ^Gfeels better than blood on ^Dblood ^ATaking ^Gturns dancing with Ma^Drie as the band played Night of the Johnstown ^AFlood I^D catch him when he's straying ^Glike any brother ^Dwould Man turns his back on his ^Afamily well he just ain't no ^Dgoo^Gd ^D