[Chorus 1]
D# G#
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
D# G#
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
D# G#
Roll On family, Roll On crew.
D#
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
Fm A# D#
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
D# | G# |D# | G#
[Verse 1]
G#
Well it's Monday mornin', he's kissin' mama goodbye.
Cm
He's up and gone with the sun.
G#
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
D#
and he's off on a midwest run.
G#
And three sad faces gather 'round mama.
Cm
They ask her when daddy's comin' home.
G#
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
D#
and they sure miss him when he's gone.
[Climb 1]
G# Gm F7
Ah, but he calls 'em ev'ry night and tells 'em
A#
that he loves them.
He taught 'em this song to sing:
[Chorus 1]
D# G#
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
D# G#
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
D# G#
Roll On family, Roll On crew.
D#
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
Fm A# D#
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
E |E A
[Verse 2]
A E
Well it's Wednesday evening.
Mama's waitin' by the phone.
C#m
It rings but it's not his voice.
A
Seems the highway patrol has found a jack-knifed rig
E
in a snowbank in Illinois.
But the driver was missin',
and the search had been abandoned
C#m
'cause the weather had ev'rything stalled.
A
And they had checked all the houses and the local motels;
E
when they had some more news they'd call.
[Climb 2]
A G#m F#m7
And she told them when they found him to tell him
B
that she loved him.
And she hung up the phone singin':
[Chorus 2]
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 C#m
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
[Bridge]
C#m G#m7
Mama and the children will be waiting up all night long,
A
thinkin' nothin' but the worst is comin'
E
with the ringin' of the telephone.
C#m
Oh, but the Man upstairs was list'nin'
A
when Mama asked him to bring Daddy home.
F#m
And when the call came in, it was Daddy on the other end,
B
askin' her if she had been a-singin' the song, singin':
REPEAT Chorus 2, but instead of C#m at the end of "Roll On Eighteen Wheeler,
Roll On", make it an F.
E | A |
E A
Eighteen wheeler
E A
Eighteen wheeler
E A
Eighteen wheeler
E A
Eighteen wheeler---- (hold until final "roll on!")
A |Em/A
Roll On!
Em/A
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