Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash - Highway Patrolman guitar tab

Highway Patrolman

Recorded: April, 6 1983 Nashville, Tennessee

Source: The Essential Johnny Cash Vol. 3

My name is Joe Roberts, I work for the state

I'm a sergeant here in Peringville,barracks number eight

I've always done an honest job, honest as I could

Got a brother named Frankie,Frankie ain't no good

Ever since we were young kids, it's been the same come down

I'd get a call on the shortway, Frankie's in trouble downtown

Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away

But sometimes when it's your brother, you look the other way

Yeah me and Frankie laughing and drinking

Nothing feels better than blood with blood

Taking turns dancing with Maria

While the band plays "The Night of the Johnstown Flood"

I catch him when he's straying, like any brother should

Man turns his back on his family, he ain't no good

Well Frankie went into the army, back in 1965

I got a farm and settled down, took Maria for my wife

But them wheat prices kept on dropping,til' it was like we's getting robbed

Frankie came home in '68, me, I took this job

Yeah me and Frankie laughing and drinking

Nothing feels better than blood with blood

Taking turns dancing with Maria

While the band plays "The Night of the Johnstown Flood"

I catch him when he's straying, teach him how to walk that line

Man turns his back on his family, he ain't no friend of mine

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The night was like any other, I got a call 'bout a quarter 'til nine

There was trouble at a road house, out on the Michigan line

There was a kid on the floor looking bad, bleeding hard from his head

There was a girl crying at a table,"It was Frankie" she said

I ran out and Êjumped in my car, then I hit the lights

I must of did about 110, in Michigan County that night

It was down by the crossroad, out by Willow Bank

Seen a Buick with Ohio plates, behind the wheel was Frank

Well I chased him through them county roads, 'til the sign said

"Canadian Boarder Five Miles from Here"

Pulled over to the side of the highway, watched the tail lights disappear

Yeah me and Frankie laughing and drinking

Nothing feels better than blood with blood

Taking turns dancing with Maria

While the band plays "The Night of the Johnstown Flood"

I catch him when he's straying, like any brother should

Man turns his back on his family, he ain't no good

Highway Patrolman

Recorded: April, 6 1983 Nashville, Tennessee

Source: The Essential Johnny Cash Vol. 3

My name is Joe Roberts, I work for the state

I'm a sergeant here in Peringville,barracks number eight

I've always done an honest job, honest as I could

Got a brother named Frankie,Frankie ain't no good

Ever since we were young kids, it's been the same come down

I'd get a call on the shortway, Frankie's in trouble downtown

Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away

But sometimes when it's your brother, you look the other way

Yeah me and Frankie laughing and drinking

Nothing feels better than blood with blood

Taking turns dancing with Maria

While the band plays "The Night of the Johnstown Flood"

I catch him when he's straying, like any brother should

Man turns his back on his family, he ain't no good

Well Frankie went into the army, back in 1965

I got a farm and settled down, took Maria for my wife

But them wheat prices kept on dropping,til' it was like we's getting robbed

Frankie came home in '68, me, I took this job

Yeah me and Frankie laughing and drinking

Nothing feels better than blood with blood

Taking turns dancing with Maria

While the band plays "The Night of the Johnstown Flood"

I catch him when he's straying, teach him how to walk that line

Man turns his back on his family, he ain't no friend of mine

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The night was like any other, I got a call 'bout a quarter 'til nine

There was trouble at a road house, out on the Michigan line

There was a kid on the floor looking bad, bleeding hard from his head

There was a girl crying at a table,"It was Frankie" she said

I ran out and Êjumped in my car, then I hit the lights

I must of did about 110, in Michigan County that night

It was down by the crossroad, out by Willow Bank

Seen a Buick with Ohio plates, behind the wheel was Frank

Well I chased him through them county roads, 'til the sign said

"Canadian Boarder Five Miles from Here"

Pulled over to the side of the highway, watched the tail lights disappear

Yeah me and Frankie laughing and drinking

Nothing feels better than blood with blood

Taking turns dancing with Maria

While the band plays "The Night of the Johnstown Flood"

I catch him when he's straying, like any brother should

Man turns his back on his family, he ain't no good

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