Highway Patrolman
Dar Williams

Words and music by Bruce Springsteen
From Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state
I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8
I always done an honest job as honest as I could
I got a brother named Franky and Frank he ain't no good
Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down
I get a call on the shortwave Franky's in trouble downtown
Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away
But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way
CHORUS 1:
Yeah, me and Franky laughing and drinking nothing feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Marie as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood
I catch him when he's straying like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good
Well Franky went in the army back in 1965
I got a farm deferment, settled down, took Maria for my wife
But them wheat prices kept on dropping 'till it was like we were getting robbed
Franky came home in '68, and me, I took this job
CHORUS 2:
Yea we're laughing and drinking nothing feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Marie as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood
I catch him when he's straying, teach him how to walk that line
Man turns his back on his family he ain't no friend of mine
Well the night was like any other, I got a call 'bout quarter to nine
There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line
There was a kid lying on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head
There was a girl crying at a table and it was Frank, they said
Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights
But I


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  After All   After All [DVD]   All My Heroes Are Dead   Alleluia   And A God Descended   Another Mystery   Anthem   Are You Out There   Are You Out There Intro   Arrival   As Cool As I Am   Beautiful Enemy   Better Things   Blue Light of the Flame   Book of Love   Bought And Sold   Buzzer   Calamity John   Calling The Moon   Christians and Pagans   Closer to Me   College Girl   Comfortably Numb   Comfortably Numb - Ani Difranco   Crystal Creek   Echoes   Elegy   Empire   End of the Summer   Everybody Knows this is Nowhere   Family   Farewell To The Old Me   February   Fishing In The Morning   Flinty Kind Of Woman   For Everyone   Go To The Woods   Holly Ann (The Weaver Song)   Holly Tree   Hudson   I am the one who will remember everything   I Had No Right   I Have Been Around the World   I Have Lost My Dreams   I Love, I Love   I Love, I Love [Travelling II]   I Saw A Bird Fly Away   I Will Free Myself   I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono   I'll Miss You Till I Meet You   If I Wrote You   Imagine   In Love But Not At Peace   Iowa   Iowa (Traveling 3)   Iowa (Traveling III)   Ireland   It Happens Every Day   It Happens Every Day [DVD]   It's A War In There   It's Alright   Liar   Mark Rothko Song   Mercy Of The Fallen   Midnight Radio   Mortal City   My Friends   New York Is a Harbor   O Canada   O Canada Girls   Party Generation   Play The Greed   Playing To The Firmament   Road Buddy   So Close to My Heart   Southern California Wants To Be Western New York   Southern California Wants To Be Western New&hellip...   Spring Street   Starman   Stop Smoking   Storm King   Summer Child   Summerday   Teen For God   Teenagers, Kick Our Butts   Terrarium   The Babysitter's Here   The Ballad Of Mary Magdalen   The Ballad Of Mary Magdalene   The Beauty of the Rain   The Blessings   The Business of Things   The Christians & The Pagans   The Christians & The Pagans   The Christians and the Pagans   The Easy Way   The End of the Summer   The Great Unknown   The Hudson   The Light and the Sea   The Ocean   The One Who Knows   The Poignant, Yet Pointless, Crisis Of A Coed   The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis of a Co - Ed   The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis of a Co-Ed   The Tide Falls Away   The Weaver Song   The World's Not Falling Apart   This Earth   This Is Not The House That Pain Built   This Land Is Your Land   This Was Pompeii   Traveling Again   Traveling Again (Traveling 1)   Traveling Again (Traveling I)   Troubled Times   Two Sides of the River   We Learned The Sea   Weight of the World   What Do You Hear in These Sounds   What Do You Love More Than Love   When I Was A Boy   When It Gets That Way   When Sal's Burned Down   Whispering Pines   Wild Mountain Thyme   Wilder Than Her   You Are Everyone   You Rise and Meet the Day   You Will Ride With Me Tonight   You're Aging Well   Your Fire Your Soul

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