Chords for Highway Patrolman (Bruce Springsteen cover w/ Skylar McKee)

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_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ My name is Joe Roberts.
_ _ [G] _
I work for the state
_ I'm a sergeant out of Perrin
_ _ _ Barracks number
[A] _ I
_ _ Always done an honest [D] job
_ _ _ Honest as I could I _ got a brother [A] named Frankie
Frankie ain't no good _
_ _ _ _ Ever since we was young kids
_ [G] It's been the same come down.
_ I get a call on a shortwave
_ Frankie's in trouble [A] down time
If [D] it were any other man, [G] _ I'd put him straight [D] away
_ _ _ _ But when [A] it's your brother sometimes you look [D] the other way _ _ _ _
[E] Yeah [G] me and Frankie laughing [D] and drinking
Nothing [G] feels better
than blood [D] on blood
_ [G] Taking turns
dancing [D] with Maria
while [E] the band _ plays
now to the Johnstown
[A] _ flood _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ Catching when he's straight _
_ [G] _ like any brother
[D] Would _ _ man turns back on his [A] family?
He just ain't no good _ _ _ _
_ _ Frankie went in the army _ [G] back in
_ _ 1965
[D] _ _ _
_ Got a farm deferment _ _
Settled down took Maria for my wife
[A] _ _
[D] We prices kept dropping [G] till it was like we were getting robbed
[D] _ _ _ _
Frankie [A] came home in 68 me.
I took [D] his job
_ _ _ _ Yeah, me and [G] Frankie laughing and drinking
Nothing [G] feels better
than blood [D] on blood
_ [G] Taking turns
dancing [D] with Maria
while the man _ plays
now to the Johnstown
[B] _
flood
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
Catching when he's straight
_ [G] Teach him how to walk that [D] line
_ _ Man turns back on [A] his family.
He ain't no [D] friend of mine _
_ _ _ Well tonight was like any other
_ [G] Got a call back
quarter to nine
There [B] was trouble
_ in [D] a roadhouse out on
the Michigan _
[A] line
There was a kid
_ lying on the floor
[G] bleeding hard
from his [D]
head
There was a girl
Crying [A] at a table
It was [D] Frank.
She said
[E] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ Went out and I jumped in my [G] car and I hit the [D] lights
Well, I must have done a hundred and ten down Michigan County that [A] night
It [D] was out at the crossroads _
[G] down round
my willow bank _
Seen a Buick with [A] Ohio plates behind the [D] wheel was Frank
_ _ _ Well, I chased him through them country roads
till [G] the sign said
Canadian [D] border five miles from here
Pulled over [A] to the side.
I watched his [D] taillights _
disappear
_ _ _ [G] Yeah me and Frankie laughing [D] and drinking
Nothing [G] feels better
than blood [D] on blood
Taking [G] turns
Dancing with [D] Maria
while the band plays
night of the Johnstown
_ [A] Flood _ _ _ _ _ [D] I catch him when he's straight
Teach him [Em] how to walk that [D] line
_ _ Man turns back on his [A] family.
He ain't no friend of mine _
_ _ _ Yeah
Man turns back on his family
He [D] just ain't no good _
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