Highway Patrolman - Johnny Cash Chords
Chords: G, C, D7
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G G
My name is Joe Roberts
C G
I work for the state
G G
I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville
G D7 D7
Barracks number eight
G G
I always done an honest job
C G
Honest as I could
G D7
Got a brother named Frankie
D7 G G
Frankie ain't no good
G G
Ever since we were young kids
C G
It's been the same come down
G G
I get a call on the shortwave
G D7 D7
Frankie's in trouble down - town
G G
Well if it was any other man
C G
I'd put him straight a - way
G D7
But sometimes when it's your brother
D7 G G
You look the other way
C G
Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'
C G
Nothin' feels better than blood on blood
C G
Takin' turns dancin' with Ma - ria
G G
While the band played "the Night of the
D7 D7
Johnstown Flood"
G G
I catch him when he's strayin'
C G
Like any brother should
G D7
Man turns his back on his family
D7 G G
He ain't no good
G G
Well Frankie went in the army
C G
Back in nineteensixty - five
G G
I got a farm de - ferment,
G D7 D7
Settled down, took Maria for my wife
G G
But them wheat prices kept on droppin'
C G
Till it was like we were gettin' robbed
G D7
Frankie came home in sixtyeight
D7 G
Me, I took this job
C G
Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'
C G
Nothin' feels better than blood on blood
C G
Takin' turns dancin' with Ma - ria
G
While the band played "the Night of the
D7 D7
Johnstown Flood"
G G
I catch him when he's strayin'
C G
Teach him how to walk that line
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