Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash - Highway Patrolman (key Of A) guitar chord

Johnny Cash-Highway Patrolman

Note the lyric change in the second round of the chorus.

VERSE ONE:

A D A

My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state

E

I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number eight

A D A

I always done an honest job as honest as I could

E A

I got a brother named Frankie and Frankie ain't no good

A D A

Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down

E

I get a call on the shortwave Frankie's in trouble downtown

A D A

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

E A

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

CHORUS:

D A

Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'

D A

Nothin' feels better than blood on blood

D A

Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band

E

Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"

A D A

I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother should

E A

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

VERSE TWO:

Well Frankie 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

Frankie came home in `68, and me, I took this job

CHORUS:

Yeah 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

VERSE THREE (EXTENDED):

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 cry'n' 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 musta 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 tail-lights disappear

CHORUS:

Yeah me and Frankie 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 should

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

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