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My name is Joe Roberts
I work for the State
I'm a sergeant out on Perenville
Barracks number eight
I've always done an honest job
Honest as I could
Got a brother named Frankie
Frankie ain't no good
And ever since we were young kids
It's been the same come down
I'd get a call on a short way
Frankie's in trouble downtown
But 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 laughin' and drinkin'
Nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria
While the band played "The Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he's strayin'
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 deferment
Settled down, took Maria for my wife
But them wheat prices kept on droppin'
'Til it was like we's gettin' robbed
Frankie came home in '68
Me, I took this job
Yeah, me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'
Nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria
While the band played "The 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
Ain't no friend of mine
The night was like any other
I got a call 'bout a quarter to nine
There was trouble at a roadhouse
Out on the Michigan line
There was a kid on the floor lookin' bad
Bleedin' hard from his head
There was a girl cryin' at a table
It was Frankie, she said
I ran out and I jumped in my car
Then I hit the lights
I must have done about a hundred and ten
Through Michigan County that night
It was down by the crossroads
Out 'bout willow bank
Seen the Buick with Ohio plates
Behind the wheel was Frank
Well, I chased him through them county roads
'Til the sign said, "Canadian border five miles from here"
Pulled over to the south out the highway
Watched the taillights disappear
Yeah, me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'
Nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria
While the band played "The Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he's strayin'
Like any brother should
Man turns his back on his family
He ain't no good



Autor(en): Bruce Springsteen


Johnny Cash - Love, God, Murder

1   I Walk the Line
2   Oh What A Dream
3   All Over Again
4   A Little At a Time
5   My Old Faded Rose
6   Happiness Is You
7   Flesh and Blood
8   I Tremble For You
9   I Feel Better All Over
10   'Cause I Love You
11   Ballad Of Barbara
12   Ring of Fire
13   My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You
14   While I've Got It On My Mind
15   I Still Miss Someone
16   The One Rose (That's Left In My Heart)
17   What On Earth (Will You Do for Heaven's Sake)
18   My God Is Real
19   It Was Jesus
20   Why Me Lord
21   The Greatest Cowboy Of Them All
22   Redemption
23   The Great Speckle Bird
24   The Old Account
25   Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
26   When He Comes
27   Were You There? (When They Crucified My Lord)
28   Man In White
29   Belshazzar
30   Oh, Bury Me Not (Introduction: A Cowboy's Prayer) [Mono]
31   Oh Come Angel Band
32   Folsom Prison Blues
33   Delia's Gone
34   Mister Garfield
35   Orleans Parish Prison
36   When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below) [Mono]
37   The Sound of Laughter
38   Cocaine Blues
39   Hardin Wouldn't Run
40   The Long Black Veil
41   Austin Prison
42   Joe Bean
43   Going to Memphis
44   Don't Take Your Guns to Town
45   Highway Patrolman
46   Jacob Green
47   The Wall




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