Tytuł: Highway Patrolman

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