[Chorus 1]
E A
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
E A
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
E A
Roll On family, Roll On crew.
E
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
F#m B E
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
E | A |E | A
[Verse 1]
A
Well it's Monday mornin', he's kissin' mama goodbye.
C#m
He's up and gone with the sun.
A
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
E
and he's off on a midwest run.
A
And three sad faces gather 'round mama.
C#m
They ask her when daddy's comin' home.
A
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
E
and they sure miss him when he's gone.
[Climb 1]
A G#m F#7
Ah, but he calls 'em ev'ry night and tells 'em
B
that he loves them.
He taught 'em this song to sing:
[Chorus 1]
E A
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
E A
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
E A
Roll On family, Roll On crew.
E
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
F#m B E
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
F |F A#
[Verse 2]
A# F
Well it's Wednesday evening.
Mama's waitin' by the phone.
Dm
It rings but it's not his voice.
A#
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
Dm
'cause the weather had ev'rything stalled.
A#
And they had checked all the houses and the local motels;
F
when they had some more news they'd call.
[Climb 2]
A# Am Gm7
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 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 Dm
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
[Bridge]
Dm Am7
Mama and the children will be waiting up all night long,
A#
thinkin' nothin' but the worst is comin'
F
with the ringin' of the telephone.
Dm
Oh, but the Man upstairs was list'nin'
A#
when Mama asked him to bring Daddy home.
Gm
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 Dm at the end of "Roll On Eighteen Wheeler,
Roll On", make it an F.
F | A# |
F A#
Eighteen wheeler
F A#
Eighteen wheeler
F A#
Eighteen wheeler
F A#
Eighteen wheeler---- (hold until final "roll on!")
A# |Fm/A#
Roll On!
Fm/A#
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