{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":84432,"song":"Highway Patrolman","artist":"Bruce Springsteen","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/84432-highway-patrolman-chords-by-bruce-springsteen/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/84432?type=chord","rating":4.87474,"votes":75,"content":"By Pete Palmer\r\n\r\nJust arpeggiate the chords, and sometimes on the D chord Bruce drops the F#\r\nnote to an open E note (Dsus2).\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMy name is Joe Roberts, I work for the state[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI'm a sergeant out of Perrineville, barracks number eight[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI always done an honest job, as honest as I could[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI got a brother named Frankie and Frankie ain't no good[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNow ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI get a call on the shortwave, Frankie's in trouble downtown[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWell, if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYeah, me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNothin' feels better than blood on blood[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTakin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nPlayed \"Night of the Johnstown Flood\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] (or [ch]A7[/ch]) [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMan turns his back on his family, well, he just ain't no good[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWell, Frankie went in the army back in 1965[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI got a farm deferment, settled down, took Maria for my wife[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut them wheat prices kept on droppin' till it was like we were gettin' robbed[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFrankie came home in '68, and me, I took this job[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYeah, we're laughin' and drinkin'[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNothin' feels better than blood on blood[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTakin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nPlayed \"Night of the Johnstown Flood\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI catch him when he's strayin', teach him how to walk that line[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMan turns his back on his family, he ain't no friend of mine[/tab]\r\n\r\n([ch]D[/ch]) [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWell, the night was like any other, I got a call 'bout quarter to nine[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThere was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThere was a kid lyin' on the floor lookin' bad, bleedin' hard from his head[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThere was a girl cryin' at a table and it was Frank, they said[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWell, I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWell, I musta done a hundred and ten through Michigan county that night[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIt was out at the crossroads, down 'round Willow Bank[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSeen a Buick with Ohio plates, behind the wheel was Frank[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWell, I chased him through them county roads till a sign said \"Canadian border five miles from here\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI pulled over the side of the highway and watched his taillights disappear[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMe and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNothin' feels better than blood on blood[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTakin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nPlayed \"Night of the Johnstown Flood\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] (or [ch]A7[/ch]) [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMan turns his back on his family, well, he just ain't no good[/tab]","plain_text":"By Pete Palmer\n\nJust arpeggiate the chords, and sometimes on the D chord Bruce drops the F#\nnote to an open E note (Dsus2).\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(D) G A D\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["D","F","E","Dsus2","G","A","A7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}