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MyD name is Joe Roberts GI work for the Dstate I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number Aeight ID always done an honest job as Ghonest as I Dcould I got a brother named AFrankie and Frankie ain't no Dgood DNow ever since we was young kids it's Gbeen the same come Ddown I get a call on the shortwave Frankie's in trouble Adowntown Well if Dit was any other man, I'd Gput him straight aDway But when it's your broAther sometimes you look the other DwayGYeah me and Frankie laughin' and Ddrinkin' Nothin' Gfeels better than blood on Dblood GTakin' turns dancin' with DMaria as the band Played "Night of the Johnstown AFlood" DI catch him when he's strayin' Glike any brother Dwould Man turns his back on his Afamily well he just ain't no DgoodWell 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 droppin' till it was like we were gettin' robbed Frankie came home in `68, and me, I took this job Yeah we're laughin' and drinkin' Nothin' feels better than blood on blood Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood" I catch him when he's strayin' 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 lyin' on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head There was a girl cry'n' 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 musta done one 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 the side of the highway and watched his tail-lights disappear