My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state
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I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8
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I always done an honest job as honest as I could
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I got a brother named Franky and Franky ain't no good
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Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down
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I get a call over the radio Franky's in trouble downtown
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Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away
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But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way
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Me and Franky laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
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I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would
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Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good
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Well Franky went in the army back in 1965 I got a farm deferment settled down took Maria for my wife
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But them wheat prices kept on droppin' till it was like we were gettin' robbed
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Franky came home in '68 and me I took this job
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Yea we're laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
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I catch him when he's strayin', teach him how to walk that line
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Man turns his back on his family he ain't no friend of mine
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The night was like any other, I got a call 'bout quarter to nine
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There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line
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There was a kid lyin' on the floor lookin' bad, bleedin' hard from his head there was a girl cryin' at a table, it was Frank they said
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Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights
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I must of done 110 through Michigan county that night
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It was out at the crossroads down round Willow bank
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Seen a Buick with Ohio plates behind the wheel was Frank
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Well I chased him through them county roads till a sign said Canadian border 5 miles from here
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I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his taillights disappear
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Me and Franky laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
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I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would
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Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good
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Highway Patrolman
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Bruce Springsteen |