Tablature highway patrol - Bruce Springsteen

          



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  From: n3884@cray.com (Peter Palmer)

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  Subject: Highway Patrolman chords

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  Somebody asked for Bruce's Highway Patrolman.  Here it is,

  or at least this is how I play it.  Just arpeggio the chords, and sometimes

  on the D chord Bruce drops the F# note to an open E note (Dsus2??).

  

  Nebraska hint:  The songs Nebraska, Mansion on the Hill, and Used Cars

                  all use the D-G-A or D-A-G progressions in one way or

                  another.

  

  

  

  Highway Patrolman

  

    D                    G              D

  My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state

                                                     A

  I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number eight

  

   D                             G           D

  I always done an honest job as honest as I could

  

                        A                            D

  I got a brother named Frankie and Frankie ain't no good

  

  D                                     G                  D

  Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down

                                                     A

  

  I get a call on the shortwave Frankie's in trouble downtown

  

          D                         G                 D

  Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away

  

                       A                                  D

  But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way

  

  G                                D

  Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'

  

          G                          D

  Nothin' feels better than blood on blood

  

  G                         D

  Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band

  

                                 A

  Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"

  

  D                              G                D

  I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would

  

                            A (or A7)                    D

  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 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

  

  -- 

  

  

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  Pete Palmer (n3884@cray.com)

   


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 Highway patrol, de Bruce springsteen 

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