Highway Patrolman Chords by Whitey Morgan And The 78S

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_ My name is Joe Robbins _ _
_ [G] I work for [D] state _
I'm a sergeant out in Berenville
_ _ [A] Barracks number _ eight
_ [D] I always done an honest job
_ [G] As honest as [D] I could _ I
Got a brother [A] named Frankie
Frankie [D] ain't no good _ _ _ _
_ _ Now ever since we was young kids
_ [G] It's been the same come [D] down.
_ I
Get a call on the short way
_ Frankie's in [A] trouble downtown _ _
[D] Well, if it was any other man, _ [G] I'd put him straight [D] away _ _
_ _ But when it's [A] your brother sometimes you look the [D] other way
_ _ _ _ [A]
Yeah, [G] me and Frankie laughing [D] and drinking
Nothing [G] feels better than blood [D] on blood
Taking [G] turns
Dancing with [D] Maria as the band plays now to the [A] Johnstown _
[D] Catch _ him when he stray _ _
_ [G] like any brother [D] Would _
_ Man turn his back on [A] his family.
He [D] just ain't no good _ _ _ _ _
Well Frankie went in the army
back [G] in
_ _ _ [D] _ 1965 I
_ Got a farm the ferry _
Settled down took [A] Maria for my wife _
[D] But then we prices kept on dropping
Little [G] like we were getting [D] raw _ _
_ Frank came home [A] in 68 me.
I [D] took this job _ _ _ _
[G] Yeah, me and Frankie laughing [D] and drinking
Nothing [G] feels better than blood [D] on blood
[G] Taking turns
Dancing with [D] Maria as the band played night of the Johnstown [A] Town _ _
[D] Catch him when he stray _ _
[G] Teach him how to walk the [D] line _ _
_ Man turn his back on his [A] family.
Hey, [D] no friend of mine _ _ _ _
Well the night was like any other I
[G] Got a call about quarter to [D] nine _
there was trouble in a roadhouse and
out on the Michigan line
[A] _ There [D] was a kid lying on the floor looking back
[G] bleeding hard from [D] his head
_ There's a girl crying at [A] table
It was [D] Frank they say
_ _ _ _ Well, I went and I jumped in my car
_ [G] And I hit [D] the lights.
_ I Must've done
110
Through Michigan [A]
County that night
Well, [D] it was out by the _ crossroads
[G] down round Willow
[D] It was a Buick with [A] Oh how plates behind the [D] wheel was Frank _ _
_ _ _ Well, I chased him through them county roads
Till [G] the sign said Canadian border five [D] miles from here
_ Pull [A] over the side of the highway and watched his tail lights disappear _ _ _
_ [G] Yeah me and Frankie laughing and [D] drinking
_ [G] Nothing feels better than blood [D] on blood
[A] _ [G] Taking turns
Dancing with [D] Maria as the band played night of the Johnstown [A] Town flood
[D] Well, I catch him when he straight _
_ [G] _ like any brother
[D] _ _ _
_ Man turn his back on [A] his family.
He just [D] ain't no good _ _ _ _