Johnny Cash-Highway Patrolman

Note the lyric change in the second round of the chorus.

VERSE ONE:  

A                    D              A
My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state
                                                   E
I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number eight
 A                             D           A
I always done an honest job as honest as I could
                      E                            A
I got a brother named Frankie and Frankie ain't no good
A                                     D                  A
Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down
                                                   E
I get a call on the shortwave Frankie's in trouble downtown
A                                 D                 A
Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away
                             E                            A
But sometimes when it's your brother you look the other way

CHORUS:
      D                           A
Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'
              D                    A
Nothin' feels better than blood on blood
D                         A
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band
                               E
Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
A                              D                A
I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother should
                          E                   A
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good

VERSE TWO:

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

CHORUS:
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

VERSE THREE (EXTENDED):
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 

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