Highway Patrolman chords by Bruce Springsteen

INTRO: D  (Live in Dublin Version Capo 3 fret)


D           G       D
My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state
                          A
I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8
D              G       D
I always done an honest job as honest as I could
           A              D
I got a brother named Franky and Frank he ain't no good
                   G         D
Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down
                           A
I get a call on the shortwave Franky's in trouble downtown
D               G           D
Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away
          A                  D
But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way


CHORUS 1:
       G          D     A   G             D
Yeah, me and Franky laughing and drinking nothing feels better than blood on blood
A   G         D                        A
Takin' turns dancin' with Marie as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood
D               G        D
I catch him when he's straying like any brother would
             A              D
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good


               G     D
Well Franky went in the army back in 1965
                            A
I got a farm deferment, settled down, took Maria for my wife
  D                        G          D
But them wheat prices kept on dropping 'till it was like we were getting robbed
           A            D
Franky came home in '68, and me, I took this job

CHORUS 2:
G           D     A   G             D
Yea we're laughing and drinking nothing feels better than blood on blood
 A  G         D                        A
Takin' turns dancin' with Marie as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood
D                G             D
I catch him when he's straying, teach him how to walk that line
             A              D G A D
Man turns his back on his family he ain't no friend of mine


                      G           D
Well the night was like any other, I got a call 'bout quarter to nine
                           A
There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line
      D                  G           D
There was a kid lying on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head
               A              D
There was a girl crying at a table and it was Frank, they said
                   G       D
Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights
                                 A
But I must of done a hundred and ten through Michigan county that night
D               G         D
It was out at the crossroads, down round Willow bank
          A                D
Seen a Buick with Ohio plates behind the wheel was Frank

Well I chased him through them county roads
    G             D
'till a sign said Canadian border five miles from here
                 A                   D
I pulled over to the side of the highway and watched his taillights disappear


CHORUS 3:
    G          D      A  G             D
Me and Franky laughing and drinking nothing feels better than blood on blood
A   G          D                       A
Taking turns dancing with Marie as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood
 D               G        D
I catch him when he's straying like any brother would
             A              D G D
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good

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NOTES:

TUNING: As with most of the songs from this album...it's slightly flat...not
quite a full semitone.

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CHORDS: EADGBE
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D    XX0232
G    320033
A    X02220