Johnny Cash - Highway Patrolman Lyrics

Lyrics Highway Patrolman - Johnny Cash



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




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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