Highway Patrolman Lyrics

The song Highway Patrolman is performed by Bruce Springsteen in the album named Light of Day: Tribute to Bruce Springsteen in the year 2003 .



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 Franky and Franky 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 Franky'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

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

Well Franky 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
Franky came home in '68 and me I took this job

Yea 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

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 cryin' at a table, it was Frank they said
Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights
I must of done 110 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 5 miles from here
I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his taillights disappear

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



Bruce Springsteen - Light of Day: Tribute to Bruce Springsteen

Sep 2003

  1. Better Days
  2. Book of Dreams
  3. Valentine's Day
  4. Thunder Road
  5. Candy's Room
  6. Johnny 99
  7. Man at the Top
  8. If I Should Fall Behind
  9. Something in the Night
  10. Atlantic City Mike Rimbaud
  11. Highway Patrolman
  12. Mansion on the Hill
  13. Badlands
  14. State Trooper
  15. Ain't Got You
  16. Bobby Jean
  17. The River
  18. Back in Your Arms
  19. E Street Shuffle
  20. Brilliant Disguise
  21. New York City Serenade Pete Yorn
  22. Pink Cadillac
  23. Streets of Philadelphia
  24. My Hometown
  25. Light of Day
  26. Lucky Town
  27. I'm On Fire
  28. Downbound Train
  29. Stolen Car
  30. Souls of the Departed
  31. Two Hearts
  32. The Promise
  33. For You
  34. Hungry Heart
  35. Secret Garden
  36. Born To Run
  37. Working on the Highway

Highway Patrolman