My name is Joe Roberts I work for the State    I'm a sergeant out on Perenville barracks No 8    I've always done an honest job honest as I could    Got 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 Maria    While the band played The Night Of The Johnstown Flood    I 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 Maria    While the band played The 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 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 Frank    Well 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 Maria    While the band played The Night Of The Johnstown Flood    I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother should    Man turns his back on his family ain't no good