My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state I'm a
sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8 I
always done an honest job as honest as I could I
got a brother named Franky and Franky ain't no
good

Now ever since we was young kids it's been the
same come down I get a call over the radio
Franky's in trouble downtown Well if it was any
other man, I'd put him straight away But when it's
your brother sometimes you look the other way

Me and Franky 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' like any brother
would Man turns his back on his family well he
just ain't no good

Well Franky 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 Franky came
home in '68, and me, I took this job

Yea we're laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels
better than blood on blood Takin' turns dancin'
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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 cryin' 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 must of 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 taillights disappear

Me and Franky 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' like any brother would