Highway Patrolman

<p>[Verse 1]<br/>My name is Joe Roberts, I work for the state<br/>I&#x27;m a sergeant out on Perenville barracks number 8<br/>I&#x27;ve always done an honest job, honest as I could<br/>Got a brother named Frankie, Frankie isn&#x27;t no good<br/>Ever since we were young kids, it&#x27;s been the same come down<br/>I&#x27;d get a call on the short wave, Frankie&#x27;s in trouble downtown<br/>Well, if it was any other man, I&#x27;d put him straight away<br/>But sometimes when it&#x27;s your brother, you look the other way<br/><br/>[Chorus]<br/>Yeah, me and Frankie laughing and drinking, nothing feels better than blood on blood<br/>Taking turns dancing with Maria while the band played &quot;The Night of the Johnstown Flood&quot;<span><br/>I catch him when he&#x27;s straying, like any brother should<br/>Man turns his back on his family, he ain&#x27;t no good<br/>[Verse 2]<br/>Well, Frankie went into the army back in 1965<br/>I got a farm deferment, settled down, took Maria for my wife<br/>But them wheat prices kept on dropping, until it was like we&#x27;s getting robbed<br/>Frankie came home in &#x27;68, and me, I took this job<br/><br/>[Chorus]<br/>Yeah, me and Frankie laughing and drinking, nothing feels better than blood on blood<br/>Taking turns dancing with Maria while the band played &quot;The Night of the Johnstown Flood&quot;<span><br/>I catch him when he&#x27;s straying, teach him how to walk that line<br/>Man turns his back on his family, ain&#x27;t no friend of mine<br/><br/>[Verse 3]<br/>The night was like any other, I got a call about a quarter to nine<br/>There was trouble at a roadhouse out on the Michigan line<br/>There was a kid on the floor, looking bad, bleeding hard from his head<br/>There was a girl crying at a table, it was Frankie, she said<br/>I ran out and I jumped in my car, then I hit the lights<br/>I must have done about a hundred and ten to Michigan County that night<br/>It was down by the crossroads, out by willow bank<br/>Seen the Buick with Ohio plates, behind the wheel was Frank<br/>Well, I chased him through them county roads, until the sign said Canadian border five miles from here<br/>Pulled over to the side out the highway, watched the taillights disappear<br/><br/>[Chorus]<br/>Yeah, me and Frankie laughing and drinking, nothing feels better than blood on blood<br/>Taking turns dancing with Maria while the band played &quot;The Night of the Johnstown Flood&quot;<span><br/>I catch him when he&#x27;s straying, like any brother should<br/>Man turns his back on his family, he ain&#x27;t no good