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My name is Joe Roberts I work for the State |
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I'm a sergeant out on Perenville barracks No 8 |
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I've always done an honest job honest as I could |
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Got a brother named Frankie Frankie ain't no good |
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Ever since we were young kids it's been the same come down |
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I'd get a call on a short way Frankie's in trouble downtown |
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But if it was any other man I'd put him straight away |
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But sometimes when it's your brother you look the other way |
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Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood |
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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria |
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While the band played The Night Of The Johnstown Flood |
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I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother should |
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Man turns his back on his family he ain't no good |
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Well Frankie went into the army back in 1965 |
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I got a farm deferment settled down took Maria for my wife |
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But them wheat prices kept on droppin' till it was like we's gettin' robbed |
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Frankie came home in '68 and me I took this job |
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Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood |
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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria |
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While the band played The Night Of The Johnstown Flood |
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I catch him when he's strayin' teach him how to walk that line |
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Man turns his back on his family ain't no friend of mine |
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The night was like any other I got a call bout the quarter of nine |
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There was trouble at a roadhouse out on the Michigan line |
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There was a kid on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head |
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There was a girl cryin' at a table it was Frankie she said |
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I ran out and I jumped in my car then I hit the lights |
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I must have done about a hundred and ten to Michigan County that night |
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It was down by the crossroads out bout willow bank |
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Seen the buick with Ohio plates behind the wheel was Frank |
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Well I chased him through them county roads |
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Till the sign said Canadian border five miles from here |
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Pulled over to the south out the highway watched his taillights disappeared |
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Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood |
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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria |
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While the band played The Night Of The Johnstown Flood |
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I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother should |
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Man turns his back on his family ain't no good |
