Highway Patrolman - Bruce Springsteen.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Springsteen
[00:05.368]My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state
[00:13.988]I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8
[00:23.654]I always done an honest job as honest as I could
[00:32.692]I got a brother named Franky and Franky ain't no good
[00:42.018]Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down
[00:51.213]I get a call on the short wave Franky's in trouble downtown
[01:00.173]Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away
[01:09.864]But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way
[01:17.753]Yeah, me and Franky laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
[01:26.792]Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
[01:36.823]I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would
[01:46.619]Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good
[01:55.291]Well Franky went in the army back in 1965 I got a farm deferment settled down took Maria for my wife
[02:13.237]But them wheat prices kept on droppin' 'til it was like we were gettin' robbed
[02:22.851]Franky came home in '68 and me I took this job
[02:31.393]Yeah we're laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
[02:40.614]Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
[02:50.749]I catch him when he's strayin', teach him how to walk that line
[03:00.624]Man turns his back on his family he ain't no friend of mine
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[03:18.126]Well, the night was like any other, I got a call 'bout quarter to nine
[03:27.817]There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line
[03:36.673]There was a kid lyin' on the floor lookin' bad, bleedin' hard from his head
[03:45.868]There was a girl cryin' at a table, and it was Frank they said
[03:54.723]Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights
[04:03.814]Well, I must've done 110 through Michigan County that night
[04:13.061]It was out at the crossroads down round Willow Bank
[04:22.100]Seen a Buick with Ohio plates behind the wheel was Frank
[04:31.112]Well I chased him through them county roads 'til a sign said Canadian border 5 miles from here
[04:41.456]I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his taillights disappear
[04:50.286]Me and Franky laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
[04:59.324]Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
[05:10.060]I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would
[05:18.785]Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good
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