[Chorus 1]
B E
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
B E
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
B E
Roll On family, Roll On crew.
B
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
C#m F# B
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
B | E |B | E
[Verse 1]
E
Well it's Monday mornin', he's kissin' mama goodbye.
G#m
He's up and gone with the sun.
E
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
B
and he's off on a midwest run.
E
And three sad faces gather 'round mama.
G#m
They ask her when daddy's comin' home.
E
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
B
and they sure miss him when he's gone.
[Climb 1]
E D#m C#7
Ah, but he calls 'em ev'ry night and tells 'em
F#
that he loves them.
He taught 'em this song to sing:
[Chorus 1]
B E
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
B E
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
B E
Roll On family, Roll On crew.
B
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
C#m F# B
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
C |C F
[Verse 2]
F C
Well it's Wednesday evening.
Mama's waitin' by the phone.
Am
It rings but it's not his voice.
F
Seems the highway patrol has found a jack-knifed rig
C
in a snowbank in Illinois.
But the driver was missin',
and the search had been abandoned
Am
'cause the weather had ev'rything stalled.
F
And they had checked all the houses and the local motels;
C
when they had some more news they'd call.
[Climb 2]
F Em Dm7
And she told them when they found him to tell him
G
that she loved him.
And she hung up the phone singin':
[Chorus 2]
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.
Dm G Am
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
[Bridge]
Am Em7
Mama and the children will be waiting up all night long,
F
thinkin' nothin' but the worst is comin'
C
with the ringin' of the telephone.
Am
Oh, but the Man upstairs was list'nin'
F
when Mama asked him to bring Daddy home.
Dm
And when the call came in, it was Daddy on the other end,
G
askin' her if she had been a-singin' the song, singin':
REPEAT Chorus 2, but instead of Am at the end of "Roll On Eighteen Wheeler,
Roll On", make it an F.
C | F |
C F
Eighteen wheeler
C F
Eighteen wheeler
C F
Eighteen wheeler
C F
Eighteen wheeler---- (hold until final "roll on!")
F |Cm/F
Roll On!
Cm/F
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