Highway Patrolman-Bruce Springsteen

[ti:Highway Patrolman(Live)] [ar:Bruce Springsteen] [al:Live In Dublin] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Highway Patrolman (Live) - Bruce Springsteen [00:18.64]My name is joe roberts I work for the state [00:23.48] [00:25.31]I'm a sergeant out of perrineville barracks number 8 [00:30.63] [00:33.06]I always done an honest job as honest as I could [00:38.35] [00:40.64]I got a brother named frankie [00:42.35] [00:43.03]And frankie ain't no good [00:44.14] [00:48.18]Now ever since we was young kids [00:49.82] [00:51.78]Its been the same come down [00:53.16] [00:55.59]I get a call over the radio frankies [00:58.01] [00:59.34]In trouble downtown [01:00.30] [01:03.36]Well if it was any other man I'd put him straight away [01:08.19] [01:11.57]When its your brother sometimes [01:13.33]You look the other way [01:14.32] [01:17.61]Yeah me and frankie laughin and drinkin [01:19.88] [01:21.18]Nothin feels better than blood on blood [01:23.87] [01:25.30]Takin turns dancin with maria as the band [01:29.50]Played night of the johnstown flood [01:32.36] [01:34.30]I catch him when hes strayin like any brother would [01:38.85] [01:41.54]Man turns his back on his family well [01:44.44]He just ain't no good [01:45.49] [01:48.67]Well frankie went in the army back in 1965 [01:52.99] [01:57.01]I got a farm deferment settled down [02:00.92]Took maria for my wife [02:02.69] [02:04.74]But them wheat prices kept on droppin [02:06.42] [02:07.56]Till it was like we were gettin [02:09.56]Robbed [02:10.07] [02:12.43]Frankie came home in `68 and me I took this job [02:17.02] [02:19.27]Yeah were laughin and drinkin [02:21.72] [02:22.99]Nothin feels better than blood on blood [02:25.60] [02:27.35]Takin turns dancin with maria as the band [02:31.09]Played night of the johnstown flood [02:34.70]I catch him when hes strayin teach him [02:40.19]How to walk that line [02:41.49] [02:43.53]Man turns his back on his family [02:46.19]He ain't no [02:47.05] [03:05.99]Well the night was like any other [03:08.96] [03:09.89]I got a call `bout quarter to nine [03:12.47] [03:13.97]There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the michigan line [03:19.81] [03:21.88]There was a kid lyin on the floor lookin bad [03:25.21] [03:26.14]Bleedin hard from his head [03:27.80] [03:29.34]There was a girl cryn at a table [03:31.75] [03:32.90]And it was frank they said [03:34.69] [03:37.09]Well I went out and I jumped in my car [03:40.05] [03:42.04]And I hit the lights [03:43.54] [03:45.48]Well I musta done one hundred [03:47.71] [03:48.99]And ten through michigan county that night [03:51.02] [03:52.87]It was out at the crossroads [03:55.21] [03:56.75]Down `round willow bank [03:58.83] [04:00.44]Seen a buick with ohio plates [04:03.07] [04:03.82]Behind the wheel was frank [04:05.63] [04:08.25]Well I chased him through them county roads [04:11.28] [04:11.90]Till a sign said canadian border five miles from here [04:14.89] [04:16.53]I pulled over the side of the highway [04:18.56] [04:19.22]And watched his tail-lights disappear [04:20.63] [04:24.00]Me and frankie laughin and drinkin [04:26.53] [04:27.79]Nothin feels better than blood on blood [04:30.35] [04:32.20]Takin turns dancin with maria as the band [04:36.36]Played night of the johnstown flood [04:39.00] [04:41.16]I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would [04:46.18] [04:48.81]Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good [04:52.95] [04:56.05]Me and Franky laughin' and drinkin' nothin' [04:59.83]Feels better than blood on blood [05:01.63] [05:03.44]Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played [05:07.98]"Night of the Johnstown Flood" [05:10.59] [05:12.29]I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would [05:17.00] [05:19.79]Man turns his back on his family well [05:22.57]He just ain't no good