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Introduction:
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My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state
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I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number eight
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I always done an honest job as honest as I could
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I got a brother named Frankie and Frankie ain't no good
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Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down
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I get a call on the shortwave Frankie's in trouble downtown
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Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away
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But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way
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Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'
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Nothin' feels better than blood on blood
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Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band
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Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
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I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would
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Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good
Well Frankie went in the army back in 1965