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CMy name is Joe RobertFs I work for thCe state I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number Geight IC always done an honest job as Fhonest as I Ccould I got a brother named GFrankie and Frankie ain't no Cgood CNow ever since we was young kids it's Fbeen the same come Cdown I get a call on the shortwave Frankie's in trouble Gdowntown Well if Cit was any other man, I'd Fput him straight aCway But when it's your brGother sometimes you look the other Cway FYeah me and Frankie laughin' and Cdrinkin' Nothin' Ffeels better than blood on Cblood FTakin' turns dancin' with CMaria as the band Played "Night of the JohnsGtown Flood" CI catch him when he's strayin' Flike any brother Cwould G (or G7 ) C Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good
Well Frankie 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 droppin' till it was like we were gettin' robbed Frankie came home in `68, and me, I took this job Yeah we're laughin' and drinkin' Nothin' feels better than blood on blood Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood" I catch him when he's strayin' 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 lyin' on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head There was a girl cry'n' at a table and it was Frank, they said Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights Well I musta done one hundred and ten through Michigan county that night It was out at the crossroads, down `round Willow bank Seen a Buick with Ohio plates. Behind the wheel was Frank Well I chased him through them county roads Till a sign said "Canadian border five miles from here" I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his tail-lights disappear