Bruce Springsteen - Highway patrolman
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To: jamesb@animal-farm.nevada.edu
Subject: Springsteen: Highway Patrolman
By: Pete Palmer (n3884@cray.com)
Just arpeggio the chords, and sometimes on the D chord Bruce drops the F#
note to an open E note (Dsus2??).
Highway Patrolman
MyC name is Joe Roberts FI work for the Cstate
I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number Geight
IC always done an honest job as Fhonest as I Ccould
I got a brother named GFrankie and Frankie ain't no Cgood
CNow ever since we was young kids it's Fbeen the same come Cdown
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I get a call on the shortwave Frankie's in trouble downtown
Well if Cit was any other man, I'd Fput him straight aCway
But when it's your brGother sometimes you look the other Cway
FYeah me and Frankie laughin' and Cdrinkin'
Nothin' Ffeels better than blood on Cblood
FTakin' turns dancin' with CMaria as the band
Played "Night of the JohnsGtown Flood"
CI catch him when he's strayin' Flike any brother Cwould
G (or G7) C
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good
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
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
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