Highway Patrolman (Live at the Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland - November 2006)

Highway Patrolman (Live) - Bruce Springsteen (布魯斯·斯普林斯汀)

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 frankie

And frankie ain't no good

Now ever since we was young kids

Its been the same come down

I get a call over the radio frankies

In trouble downtown

Well if it was any other man I'd put him straight away

When its your brother sometimes

You look the other way

Yeah me and frankie laughin and drinkin

Nothin feels better than blood on blood

Takin turns dancin with maria as the band

Played night of the johnstown flood

I catch him when hes strayin like any brother would

Man turns his back on his family well

He just ain't no good

Well frankie 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 droppin

Till it was like we were gettin

Robbed

Frankie came home in `68 and me I took this job

Yeah were laughin and drinkin

Nothin feels better than blood on blood

Takin turns dancin with maria as the band

Played night of the johnstown flood

I catch him when hes strayin teach him

How to walk that line

Man turns his back on his family

He ain't no

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 lyin on the floor lookin bad

Bleedin hard from his head

There was a girl cryn at a table

And it was frank they said

Well I went out and I jumped in my car

And I hit the lights

Well I musta done one hundred

And ten through michigan county that night

It was out at the crossroads

Down `round willow bank

Seen a buick with ohio plates

Behind the wheel was frank

Well I chased him through them county roads

Till a sign said canadian border five miles from here

I pulled over the side of the highway

And watched his tail-lights disappear

Me and frankie laughin and drinkin

Nothin feels better than blood on blood

Takin turns dancin with maria as the band

Played night of the johnstown flood

I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would

Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good

Me and Franky laughin' and drinkin' nothin'

Feels better than blood on blood

Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played

"Night of the Johnstown Flood"

I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would

Man turns his back on his family well

He just ain't no good