My name is Joe Roberts, I work for the state I'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 Frankie, and Frankie ain't no good
Now, ever since we was young kids, it's been the same comedown I get a call on the shortwave: Frankie'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
Me and Frankie laughing and drinking Nothing feels better than blood on blood Taking turns dancing with Maria As the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood" I catch him when he's straying Like any brother would A man turns his back on his family Well, he just ain't no good
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 dropping till it was like we were getting robbed Frankie came home in '68, and me, I took this job
Yeah, we're laughing and drinking Nothing feels better than blood on blood Taking turns dancing with Maria As the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood" I catch him when he's straying Teach him how to walk that line A 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, looking bad, bleeding 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 Well, I must've 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 Frank
Well, I chased him through them county roads Till a sign said "Canadian border, five miles from here" I pulled over on the side of the highway And watched his taillights disappear
Me and Frankie laughing and drinking Nothing feels better than blood on blood Taking turns dancing with Maria As the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood" I catch him when he's straying Like any brother would A man turns his back on his family Well, he just ain't no goodTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
