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My name is |
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Joe Roberts |
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I work for the |
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StateI'm a sergeant out on |
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Perenville barracks |
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No 8I've always done an honest job honest as |
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I couldGot a brother named |
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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 |
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Frankie's in trouble downtown |
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But if it was any other man |
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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 |
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Frankie laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood |
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Takin' turns dancin' with |
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MariaWhile the band played |
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The Night |
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Of The Johnstown |
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FloodI 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 |
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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 |
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I took this job |
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Yeah me and |
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Frankie laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood |
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Takin' turns dancin' with |
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MariaWhile the band played |
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The Night |
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Of The Johnstown |
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FloodI 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 |
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I got a call bout the quarter of nine |
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There was trouble at a roadhouse out on the |
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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 |
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Frankie she said |
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I ran out and |
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I jumped in my car then |
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I hit the lights |
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I must have done about a hundred and ten to |
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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 |
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Ohio plates behind the wheel was |
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FrankWell |
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I chased him through them county roads |
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Till the sign said |
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Canadian border five miles from here |
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Pulled over to the side out the highway watched his taillights disappeared |
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Yeah me and |
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Frankie laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood |
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Takin' turns dancin' with |
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MariaWhile the band played |
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The Night |
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Of The Johnstown |
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FloodI 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 |