Highway Patrolman

Текст песни Bruce Springsteen - Highway Patrolman <br/> My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state<br />I&#039;m a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8<br />I always done an honest job as honest as I could<br />I got a brother named Franky and Franky ain&#039;t no good<br /><br />Now ever since we was young kids it&#039;s been the same come down<br />I get a call over the radio Franky&#039;s in trouble downtown<br />( )<br />Well if it was any other man, I&#039;d put him straight away<br />But when it&#039;s your brother sometimes you look the other way<br /><br />Me and Franky laughin&#039; and drinkin&#039; nothin&#039; feels better than blood on blood<br />Takin&#039; turns dancin&#039; with Maria as the band played &quot;Night of the Johnstown<br />Flood&quot;<br /><br />I catch him when he&#039;s strayin&#039; like any brother would<br />Man turns his back on his family well he just ain&#039;t no good<br /><br />Well Franky went in the army back in 1965 I got a farm deferment, settled down,<br />took Maria for my wife<br />But them wheat prices kept on droppin&#039; till it was like we were gettin&#039; robbed<br />Franky came home in &#039;68, and me, I took this job<br /><br />Yea we&#039;re laughin&#039; and drinkin&#039; nothin&#039; feels better than blood on blood<br />Takin&#039; turns dancin&#039; with Maria as the band played &quot;Night of the Johnstown<br />Flood&quot;<br />I catch him when he&#039;s strayin&#039;, teach him how to walk that line<br />Man turns his back on his family he ain&#039;t no friend of mine<br /><br />Well the night was like any other, I got a call &#039;bout quarter to nine<br />There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line<br />There was a kid lyin&#039; on the floor lookin&#039; bad bleedin&#039; hard from his head there<br />was a girl cryin&#039; at a table and it was Frank, they said<br />Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights<br />Well I must of done one hundred and ten through Michigan county that night<br /><br />It was out at the crossroads, down round Willow bank<br />Seen a Buick with Ohio plates behind the wheel was Frank<br />Well I chased him through them county roads till a sign said Canadian border<br />five miles from here<br />I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his taillights disappear<br /><br />Me and Franky laughin&#039; and drinkin&#039;<br />Nothin&#039; feels better than blood on blood<br />Takin&#039; turns dancin&#039; with Maria as the band played &quot;Night of the Johnstown<br />Flood&quot;<br />I catch him when he&#039;s strayin&#039; like any brother would