[Chorus 1]
C# F#
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
C# F#
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
C# F#
Roll On family, Roll On crew.
C#
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
D#m G# C#
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
C# | F# |C# | F#
[Verse 1]
F#
Well it's Monday mornin', he's kissin' mama goodbye.
A#m
He's up and gone with the sun.
F#
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
C#
and he's off on a midwest run.
F#
And three sad faces gather 'round mama.
A#m
They ask her when daddy's comin' home.
F#
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
C#
and they sure miss him when he's gone.
[Climb 1]
F# Fm D#7
Ah, but he calls 'em ev'ry night and tells 'em
G#
that he loves them.
He taught 'em this song to sing:
[Chorus 1]
C# F#
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
C# F#
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
C# F#
Roll On family, Roll On crew.
C#
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
D#m G# C#
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
D |D G
[Verse 2]
G D
Well it's Wednesday evening.
Mama's waitin' by the phone.
Bm
It rings but it's not his voice.
G
Seems the highway patrol has found a jack-knifed rig
D
in a snowbank in Illinois.
But the driver was missin',
and the search had been abandoned
Bm
'cause the weather had ev'rything stalled.
G
And they had checked all the houses and the local motels;
D
when they had some more news they'd call.
[Climb 2]
G F#m Em7
And she told them when they found him to tell him
A
that she loved him.
And she hung up the phone singin':
[Chorus 2]
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.
Em A Bm
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
[Bridge]
Bm F#m7
Mama and the children will be waiting up all night long,
G
thinkin' nothin' but the worst is comin'
D
with the ringin' of the telephone.
Bm
Oh, but the Man upstairs was list'nin'
G
when Mama asked him to bring Daddy home.
Em
And when the call came in, it was Daddy on the other end,
A
askin' her if she had been a-singin' the song, singin':
REPEAT Chorus 2, but instead of Bm at the end of "Roll On Eighteen Wheeler,
Roll On", make it an F.
D | G |
D G
Eighteen wheeler
D G
Eighteen wheeler
D G
Eighteen wheeler
D G
Eighteen wheeler---- (hold until final "roll on!")
G |Dm/G
Roll On!
Dm/G
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