Johnny Cash Highway Patrolman Lyrics

Highway Patrolman Lyrics

My name is Joe Roberts I work for the State 

I'm a sergeant out on
Perenville barracks No 8 

I've always done an honest job honest as I
could 

Got a brother named Frankie Frankie ain't no good 

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' till it was like we's gettin' robbed 

Frankie came home in '68 and 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 the quarter of 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 to 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 

Till the sign said Canadian border
five miles from here 

Pulled over to the side out the highway watched his
taillights disappeared 

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 ain't no good