Text und Music by Bruce SpringsteenAlbum: Badlands - A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's My name is Joe Roberts I work for the stateI'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 Frank he ain't no good
Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down
I get a call on the shortwave 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 CHORUS 1:
Yeah, me and Franky laughing and drinking nothing feels better than blood on bloodTakin' turns dancin' with Marie as the band played Night of the Johnstown FloodI catch him when he's straying 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 dropping 'till it was like we were getting robbed
Franky came home in `68, and me, I took this job CHORUS 2:
Yea we're laughing and drinking nothing feels better than blood on bloodTakin' turns dancin' with Marie as the band played Night of the Johnstown FloodI catch him when he's straying, 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 lying on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head
There was a girl crying at a table and it was Frank, they said
Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights
But I must of done a 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 FrankWell I chased him through them county roads'till a sign said Canadian border five miles from here
I pulled over to the side of the highway and watched his taillights disappear CHORUS 3:
Me and Franky laughing and drinking nothing feels better than blood on blood
Taking turns dancing with Marie as the band played Night of the Johnstown FloodI catch him when he's straying like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good
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