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 it's been the same come down
I get a call over the radio Frankie'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
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 he's 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 we're 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' 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 lyin' on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head
There was a girl cry'n' 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"
Bruce Springsteen - Highway Patrolman (04:15)
Great song here, as was the norm off this album.
This has always been one of my favourite Bruce Springsteen songs since i was little. i think it's such a lovely song!
Autor: LVOTH23
6
The Boss , The Best
Autor: foffettaro
7
that's when u feel damned that you were NOT born to see this :'(...but thank god for technology, it still lets you have a great quality of image AND sound more then 20 years latter, for the unfortunates who did not get to live in these great days (tho I must say, Working on a Highway is still well played today, it's not like other songs of Bruce that have lost some (only a small amount tho, because come on, Bruce playing Live doing bad songs, impossible!) of their magic)
Autor: mapymi
8
i want this dvd, somebody send me a link of where i can get it, no questions asked, wink wink.
Autor: smmou812
9
some looking for dvd...... others looking for cd,
some day Mr i am gonna get a version for my car