Chords for Highway Patrolman (solo acoustic) Bruce Springsteen 4/25/2005 Detroit, MI

_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Bb] I'm not 99!
_ _ Oh, God.
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You're scaring me, baby.
_ _ That [F] _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ [F] scalper look, I hate to tell you.
[Eb] I think I see a [F] scalper [Eb] right there. _ _
_ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ I got a bet with myself on this one.
I'm not going to tell you what it is.
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[B] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
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[F] _ My name's Durango.
_ [Bb] _
The [F] first team.
I'm a sergeant and a permit.
_ [C] But it's not easy. _
_ _ All was done, all was done.
[Dm] _
Lost as I [F] could.
_ _ I built a name, Franky.
Franky ain't no good. _ _
_ _ I ever said [Fm] to those young kids,
It's better [Dm] seen come [F] down.
_ _ [C]
I ever cowed on a short week.
_ Franky's in the triple-A team.
_ _ There was an alley of me.
_ [Bb] I dug straight [F] away. _ _
_ When I tripped [C] up, sometimes it would appeal to me.
_ _ _ [Dm] They didn't need Franky left me [F]
drinking.
[Dm] None of the kids' blood could put on the blood.
Daddy times, the dance was [F] real.
So they ain't played no [C] jocks in the club.
_ _ [F] Catch [C] me when he's skinny.
_ [Bb] [F] Like he ain't nothing worth.
_ Man turned to [C] bite on the slammer.
[F] He just ain't worth. _ _ _ _ _ _
Franky went to jail [Dm] back in _ [Bb]
1965.
[F] _ _ _ Got far from me.
[C] Settled in, got ready for my brains.
_ [F] Weed prices kept on dropping.
[C] Play was like weed, we'd get him [F] robbed.
_ _ Franky came home in [C] 68.
Me, I [F] took his job. _ _
_ [Dm] They didn't need Franky left me drinking.
None of the kids' blood could put on [F] the blood.
[Dm] Daddy times, the dance was [F] real.
So they ain't played no jocks in the [C] club.
_ _ [F] Catch me when he's skinny.
_ [Dm] Like he ain't [F] nothing worth. _
_ Man turned to bite on the slammer.
He just ain't worth.
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[C] _ [Dm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ Well, the night was like a [C] year. _
[F] I had a call about quarter to nine.
_ _ There was trouble in the [C] roadhouse.
Out on the Michigan street.
_ _ [F] _ Kid lying on the floor of my bed.
Bleeding hot from the city. _
What's a girl crying [C] to take?
It [F] was Franky's seat.
_ _ _ I went out and I jumped in the car.
_ And then I hit the lights.
_ I must have looked 110. _ _
Michigan can't hit [Cm] me. _ _
I passed [F] the crossroads.
_ _ [Dm] Hit it down [F] and ran right back.
Sing [C] a bit of Blue Highway, please.
Highway in the spring.
_ _ _ [C] _
Well, I could chase them [Dm] fields, county roads.
[F] But the sign said, [Dm] Canadian road at five miles.
[F] _ _ I pulled over to the side of the highway.
Watched the taillights disappear. _ _
_ [Dm] They didn't need Franky left me [F] drinking.
[Dm] None of the kids' blood could put [F] on the blood.
[Dm] Taking turns dancing [F] Marie's.
Band played my [C] Johnston's.
_ _ _ [F] Kitchen window street.
[C] _ _ [Dm] Now I gave him a blue [F] one.
_ _ Man turns his back on the slammer.
He just said, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] I [Fm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
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_ _ _ _ won that bet with myself.
_ _ _ _ I won that bet with myself.
And my bet with myself [F] was
_ that there's [N] a round of applause that comes up
[F] whenever you mention some place.
[Gb] _ _ _
[Bb] _ Particularly if you're like anywhere [Dm] near that place.
[Eb]
I said, yeah, I just [F] killed _ [A] 12 people in Wyoming.
[C] Wyoming.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [N] _
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[Bb] _ _ So, _ just one of those _ human natures.
Just human nature.
That's all. _ _