歌手:Johnny Cash
专辑:《Murder》

My name is
Joe Roberts
I work for the
StateI'm a sergeant out on
Perenville barracks
No 8I've always done an honest job honest as
I couldGot a brother named
Frankie Frankie ain't no good
Ever since we were young kids it's been the same come down
I'd get a call on a short way
Frankie's in trouble downtown
But if it was any other man
I'd put him straight away
But sometimes when it's your brother you look the other way
Yeah me and
Frankie laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with
MariaWhile the band played
The Night
Of The Johnstown
FloodI catch him when he's strayin' like any brother should
Man turns his back on his family he ain't no good
Well Frankie went into 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's gettin' robbed
Frankie came home in '68 and me
I took this job
Yeah me and
Frankie laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with
MariaWhile the band played
The Night
Of The Johnstown
FloodI catch him when he's strayin' teach him how to walk that line
Man turns his back on his family ain't no friend of mine
The night was like any other
I got a call bout the quarter of nine
There was trouble at a roadhouse out on the
Michigan line
There was a kid on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head
There was a girl cryin' at a table it was
Frankie she said
I ran out and
I jumped in my car then
I hit the lights
I must have done about a hundred and ten to
Michigan County that night
It was down by the crossroads out bout willow bank
Seen the buick with
Ohio plates behind the wheel was
FrankWell
I chased him through them county roads
Till the sign said
Canadian border five miles from here
Pulled over to the side out the highway watched his taillights disappeared
Yeah me and
Frankie laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with
MariaWhile the band played
The Night
Of The Johnstown
FloodI catch him when he's strayin' like any brother should
Man turns his back on his family ain't no good