Chords for BJ Barham - Highway Patrolman

[C] But this is a song by one of my favorite songwriters
in the whole wide world, and [G] hopefully you'll like it.
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_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] Here we go.
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_ When we was young kids, _ [F]
it's been the [C] same calm down.
_ _ I get a call on a short wave.
_ Frankie's in trouble [G] downtown. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] If it was any other man, [F] oh, I'd put him straight [C] away. _ _
_ _ _ When [G] it's your brother, sometimes you look the [C] other way. _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ We were laughing [C] and singing. _
[F] Nothing feels better than blood [C] on blood. _
[F] Taking turns dancing with [C] Maria _ as a band played night
at [G] the Johnstown Club.
_ _ _ _ [C] I'll catch him when he's straying,
_ _ [F] like any brother [C] would.
_ _ _ He'd turn your back on your [G] family.
Man, you ain't no [C] good. _ _
_ _ _ Well, Frankie went in the Army _ [F] back in _ [C] 1965.
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_ [C] _ _ I got a farm to firm and settle down [D] to Maria for my [B] wife.
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[C] Then the wheat prices kept on dropping.
It was like we was getting robbed. _ _ _
Frankie came [G] home in 68.
[C] Me, I took this job. _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] We were laughing [C] and singing.
_ [F] Nothing feels better than [C] blood on blood.
_ [F] Taking turns dancing with [C] Maria _ as a band played night
at the [G] Johnstown Club. _ _
_ _ [C] I'll catch him when he's straying.
_ I'll [F] teach him how to walk that [C] line.
_ _ He'd turn your [G] back on your family.
You ain't no friend [C] of mine. _ _ _
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_ _ Well, tonight's like any other.
I get [F] a call about a quarter [C] to nine. _
_ _ There was trouble in a roadhouse _ out on the [Am] Michigan [G] line.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] There's a boy laying on the floor,
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bleeding bad from his [C] head.
_ _ _ Girl [E] [G] crying at a table.
It was Frank, they [C]
said.
_ _ _ _ _ So I jumped in my car and [F] _
I hit [C] the lights.
_ _ I must have done 110 through Michigan County that [Bm] night.
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_ _ [C] It was out on the _ crossroads [F] down by Willow [C] Bank. _
_ _ Caught a Buick [G] with Ohio plates behind the wheel.
[C] _ _ _ Chased _ _ _ _ him down them county roads
till a [F] sign said Canadian border [C] five miles from here.
_ _ Pulled over on the highway and [G] watched
the taillights [C] disappear. _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] We were laughing [C] and singing. _
_ [F] Nothing feels better than [C] blood on blood.
_ _ [F] Taking turns dancing with [C] Maria _ as the band played
Night [G] of the Johnstown Flood.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] I'll catch him when he's straying _ like [F] _
any brother [C] would.
_ _ _ He'd turn your back on your [G] family.
Man, [C] you ain't no friend _ _ _ _ _ of mine.
Man turns his back on his [G] family.
He [C] just ain't no friend of mine.
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_ Hey, yo, that's an old Bruce Springsteen song. _ _