[Chorus 1]
F# B
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
F# B
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
F# B
Roll On family, Roll On crew.
F#
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
G#m C# F#
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
F# | B |F# | B
[Verse 1]
B
Well it's Monday mornin', he's kissin' mama goodbye.
D#m
He's up and gone with the sun.
B
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
F#
and he's off on a midwest run.
B
And three sad faces gather 'round mama.
D#m
They ask her when daddy's comin' home.
B
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
F#
and they sure miss him when he's gone.
[Climb 1]
B A#m G#7
Ah, but he calls 'em ev'ry night and tells 'em
C#
that he loves them.
He taught 'em this song to sing:
[Chorus 1]
F# B
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
F# B
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
F# B
Roll On family, Roll On crew.
F#
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
G#m C# F#
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
G |G C
[Verse 2]
C G
Well it's Wednesday evening.
Mama's waitin' by the phone.
Em
It rings but it's not his voice.
C
Seems the highway patrol has found a jack-knifed rig
G
in a snowbank in Illinois.
But the driver was missin',
and the search had been abandoned
Em
'cause the weather had ev'rything stalled.
C
And they had checked all the houses and the local motels;
G
when they had some more news they'd call.
[Climb 2]
C Bm Am7
And she told them when they found him to tell him
D
that she loved him.
And she hung up the phone singin':
[Chorus 2]
G C
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
G C
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
G C
Roll On family, Roll On crew.
G
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
Am D Em
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
[Bridge]
Em Bm7
Mama and the children will be waiting up all night long,
C
thinkin' nothin' but the worst is comin'
G
with the ringin' of the telephone.
Em
Oh, but the Man upstairs was list'nin'
C
when Mama asked him to bring Daddy home.
Am
And when the call came in, it was Daddy on the other end,
D
askin' her if she had been a-singin' the song, singin':
REPEAT Chorus 2, but instead of Em at the end of "Roll On Eighteen Wheeler,
Roll On", make it an F.
G | C |
G C
Eighteen wheeler
G C
Eighteen wheeler
G C
Eighteen wheeler
G C
Eighteen wheeler---- (hold until final "roll on!")
C |Gm/C
Roll On!
Gm/C
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