Highway Patrolman
Highway Patrolman

Highway Patrolman chords by Johnny Cash

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Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

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Fret 2

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  • G

  • C

  • D

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  • C

  • D

  • Intro 1

    Verse 1
    My 
    name 
    is 
    Joe 
    Roberts 

    I work 
    for 
    the State 

    I'm 
    a sergeant 
    out 
    on 

    Perenville, barracks 
    No. 

    I've 
    always 
    done 
    an 
    honest 
    job, 

    honest 
    as 
    could 

    Got 
    a brother 
    named 
    Frankie, 

    Frankie 
    ain't 
    no 
    good 

    Verse 2

    Well, 
    ever 
    since 
    we 
    were 
    young 
    kids 

    it's 
    been 
    the same 
    come 
    down 

    I'd 
    get 
    a call 
    on 
    a short 
    way 

    Frankie's 
    in 
    trouble 
    down
    town 

    But 
    if 
    it 
    was 
    any 
    other 
    man 
    I'd 
    put 

    him straight 
    away 

    But sometimes 
    when 
    it's 
    your 
    brother 

    you 
    look 
    the 
    other 
    way 

    Verse 3

    Yeah 
    me 
    and Frankie 
    laughin' 
    and 
    drinkin' 

    nothin' 
    feels 
    better 
    than 
    blood 
    on 
    blood 

    Takin' 
    turn
    s dancin' 
    with 
    Mari

    While 
    the 
    band 
    played 
    'The 
    Night 

    Of 
    The Johnstown 
    Flood' 

    Verse 4
    catch 
    him 
    when 
    he's 
    strayin' 

    like 
    any 
    brother 
    should 

    Man 
    turns 
    his 
    back 
    on 
    his 

    family 
    he 
    ain't 
    no 
    good 

    Verse 5

    Well 
    Frankie 
    went 
    into 
    the 

    army 
    back 
    in 
    1965 

    got 
    a farm 
    deferment 
    settled 

    down 
    took 
    Maria 
    for 
    my wife 

    But 
    them 
    wheat 
    prices 
    kept 
    on 
    droppin' 
    till 

    it 
    was 
    like 
    we's 
    gettin' 
    robbed 

    Frankie 
    came 
    home 
    in '68 and 

    me 
    took 
    this 
    job 

    Verse 6
    Yeah 
    me 
    and Frankie 
    laughin' 
    and 
    drink
    in' 

    nothin' 
    feels 
    better 
    than 
    blood 
    on 
    blood 

    Tak
    in' 
    turns 
    dancin' 
    with 
    Maria 

    While 
    the 
    band 
    played 
    'The Night 

    Of 
    The John
    stown 
    Flood' 

    Verse 7
    catch 
    him 
    when 
    he's 
    strayin' 

    teach 
    him 
    how 
    to walk 
    that 
    line 

    Man 
    turns 
    his 
    back 
    on 
    his family 
    ain't 

    Interlude 1
    no friend 
    of mine 



    Verse 8
    The 
    night 
    was 
    like 
    any 
    other 
    got 
    a call 

    'bout 
    the quarter 
    of 
    nine 

    There 
    was 
    trouble 
    at 
    a roadhouse 

    out 
    on 
    the 
    Michigan 
    line 

    There 
    was 
    a kid 
    on 
    the floor 
    lookin' 

    bad 
    bleedin' 
    hard 
    from 
    his 
    head 

    There 
    was 
    a girl 
    cryin' 
    at a 

    table 
    it 
    was 
    Frankie 
    she 
    said 

    Verse 9

    ran 
    out 
    and 
    I jumped 
    in 
    my car 

    then 
    I hit 
    the 
    light

    must 
    have done 
    about 
    hundred 
    and 

    ten 
    to 
    Michigan 
    County 
    that 
    night 

    It was 
    down 
    by 
    the crossroads 

    out 
    by 
    willow 
    bank 

    Seen 
    the Buick 
    with 
    Ohio 
    plates 

    behind 
    the wheel 
    was 
    Frank 

    Verse 10
    Well 
    I chased 
    him 
    through 

    them 
    county 
    roads 

    Till 
    the sign 
    said 
    Canadian 
    border 

    five 
    miles 
    from 
    here 

    Pulled 
    over 
    to the south 
    out 
    the 
    highway 

    watched 
    his tail
    lights 
    disappeared 

    Verse 11
    Yeah 
    me 
    and Frankie 
    laughin' 
    and 
    drink
    in' 

    nothin' 
    feels 
    bet
    ter 
    than 
    blood 
    on 
    blood 

    Tak
    in' 
    turns 
    dancin' 
    with 
    Mari

    While 
    the 
    band 
    played 
    'The Night 
    Of 

    The Johnstown 
    Flood' 

    Verse 12
    I catch 
    him 
    when 
    he's 
    strayin' 

    like 
    any 
    brother 
    should 

    Man 
    turns 
    his 
    back 
    on 
    his 
    family, 

    he 
    ain't 
    no 
    good 

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