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