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[00:08.42]My name is Joe Roberts I work for the State
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[00:15.16]I'm a sergeant out on Perenville barracks No 8
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[00:24.71]I've always done an honest job honest as I could
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[00:32.38]Got a brother named Frankie Frankie ain't no good
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[00:41.18]Ever since we were young kids it's been the same come down
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[00:48.48]I'd get a call on a short way Frankie's in trouble downtown
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[00:57.53]But if it was any other man I'd put him straight away
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[01:04.77]But sometimes when it's your brother you look the other way
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[01:13.63]Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
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[01:20.62]Takin' turns dancin' with Maria
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[01:24.68]While the band played The Night Of The Johnstown Flood
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[01:32.91]I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother should
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[01:39.97]Man turns his back on his family he ain't no good
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[01:49.07]Well Frankie went into the army back in 1965
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[01:56.56]I got a farm deferment settled down took Maria for my wife
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[02:05.30]But them wheat prices kept on droppin' till it was like we's gettin' robbed
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[02:13.28]Frankie came home in '68 and me I took this job
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[02:22.08]Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
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[02:29.88]Takin' turns dancin' with Maria
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[02:33.19]While the band played The Night Of The Johnstown Flood
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[02:41.80]I catch him when he's strayin' teach him how to walk that line
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[02:48.60]Man turns his back on his family ain't no friend of mine
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[03:15.00]The night was like any other I got a call bout the quarter of nine
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[03:21.80]There was trouble at a roadhouse out on the Michigan line
[03:29.35]There was a kid on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head
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[03:36.78]There was a girl cryin' at a table it was Frankie she said
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[03:46.63]I ran out and I jumped in my car then I hit the lights
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[03:54.00]I must have done about a hundred and ten to Michigan County that night
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[04:02.86]It was down by the crossroads out bout willow bank
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[04:10.53]Seen the buick with Ohio plates behind the wheel was Frank
[04:16.28]Well I chased him through them county roads
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[04:23.52]Till the sign said Canadian border five miles from here
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[04:28.50]Pulled over to the south out the highway watched his taillights disappeared
[04:33.31]Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
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[04:44.11]Takin' turns dancin' with Maria
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[04:47.29]While the band played The Night Of The Johnstown Flood
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[04:55.78]I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother should
[05:00.39]Man turns his back on his family ain't no good