[Chorus 1]
F A#
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
F A#
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
F A#
Roll On family, Roll On crew.
F
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
Gm C F
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
F | A# |F | A#
[Verse 1]
A#
Well it's Monday mornin', he's kissin' mama goodbye.
Dm
He's up and gone with the sun.
A#
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
F
and he's off on a midwest run.
A#
And three sad faces gather 'round mama.
Dm
They ask her when daddy's comin' home.
A#
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
F
and they sure miss him when he's gone.
[Climb 1]
A# Am G7
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 A#
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
F A#
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
F A#
Roll On family, Roll On crew.
F
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
Gm C F
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
F# |F# Cb
[Verse 2]
Cb F#
Well it's Wednesday evening.
Mama's waitin' by the phone.
D#m
It rings but it's not his voice.
Cb
Seems the highway patrol has found a jack-knifed rig
F#
in a snowbank in Illinois.
But the driver was missin',
and the search had been abandoned
D#m
'cause the weather had ev'rything stalled.
Cb
And they had checked all the houses and the local motels;
F#
when they had some more news they'd call.
[Climb 2]
Cb A#m G#m7
And she told them when they found him to tell him
C#
that she loved him.
And she hung up the phone singin':
[Chorus 2]
F# Cb
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
F# Cb
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
F# Cb
Roll On family, Roll On crew.
F#
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
G#m C# D#m
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
[Bridge]
D#m A#m7
Mama and the children will be waiting up all night long,
Cb
thinkin' nothin' but the worst is comin'
F#
with the ringin' of the telephone.
D#m
Oh, but the Man upstairs was list'nin'
Cb
when Mama asked him to bring Daddy home.
G#m
And when the call came in, it was Daddy on the other end,
C#
askin' her if she had been a-singin' the song, singin':
REPEAT Chorus 2, but instead of D#m at the end of "Roll On Eighteen Wheeler,
Roll On", make it an F.
F# | Cb |
F# Cb
Eighteen wheeler
F# Cb
Eighteen wheeler
F# Cb
Eighteen wheeler
F# Cb
Eighteen wheeler---- (hold until final "roll on!")
Cb |F#m/Cb
Roll On!
F#m/Cb
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