Highway Patrolman

Throughout "Highway Patrolman", Springsteen employs fictional locations and details to create an evocative setting: • The lyrics say Joe is "a sergeant out of Perrineville." The only American city with that name is Perrineville, New Jersey. There is, however, an unincorporated community called Perronville in Harris Township, Michigan. • While the lyrics state, "I must have done a hundred and ten through Michigan county that night," there is no Michigan County anywhere in the United States. • The refrain mentions a song called "The Night of the Johnstown Flood," but the song is probably fictitious. In the years after "Highway Patrolman" was released, several groups would record songs with that title. ==Legacy==

Sean Penn based the screenplay of his 1991 directorial debut The Indian Runner on the song's story. Penn also directed a music video of the song that appeared on 2001 reissue of Video Anthology / 1978–88. The song was covered by Johnny Cash on his 1983 album Johnny 99. Dar Williams performed "Highway Patrolman" on ''Badlands - A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska''. Whitey Morgan covered the song on his 2014 album ''Grandpa's Guitar''. Croatian writer Jurica Pavičić was inspired by the song to write an eponymous novel about two brothers. Croatian Television made it into a 5-episodes TV Show Patrola na cesti (Highway Patrol) in 2015-16. ==Personnel==

According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon: • Bruce Springsteen – vocals, guitar, harmonica, mandolin ==References==