[Chorus 1]
G# C#
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
G# C#
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
G# C#
Roll On family, Roll On crew.
G#
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
A#m D# G#
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
G# | C# |G# | C#
[Verse 1]
C#
Well it's Monday mornin', he's kissin' mama goodbye.
Fm
He's up and gone with the sun.
C#
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
G#
and he's off on a midwest run.
C#
And three sad faces gather 'round mama.
Fm
They ask her when daddy's comin' home.
C#
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
G#
and they sure miss him when he's gone.
[Climb 1]
C# Cm A#7
Ah, but he calls 'em ev'ry night and tells 'em
D#
that he loves them.
He taught 'em this song to sing:
[Chorus 1]
G# C#
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
G# C#
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
G# C#
Roll On family, Roll On crew.
G#
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
A#m D# G#
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
A |A D
[Verse 2]
D A
Well it's Wednesday evening.
Mama's waitin' by the phone.
F#m
It rings but it's not his voice.
D
Seems the highway patrol has found a jack-knifed rig
A
in a snowbank in Illinois.
But the driver was missin',
and the search had been abandoned
F#m
'cause the weather had ev'rything stalled.
D
And they had checked all the houses and the local motels;
A
when they had some more news they'd call.
[Climb 2]
D C#m Bm7
And she told them when they found him to tell him
E
that she loved him.
And she hung up the phone singin':
[Chorus 2]
A D
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
A D
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
A D
Roll On family, Roll On crew.
A
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
Bm E F#m
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
[Bridge]
F#m C#m7
Mama and the children will be waiting up all night long,
D
thinkin' nothin' but the worst is comin'
A
with the ringin' of the telephone.
F#m
Oh, but the Man upstairs was list'nin'
D
when Mama asked him to bring Daddy home.
Bm
And when the call came in, it was Daddy on the other end,
E
askin' her if she had been a-singin' the song, singin':
REPEAT Chorus 2, but instead of F#m at the end of "Roll On Eighteen Wheeler,
Roll On", make it an F.
A | D |
A D
Eighteen wheeler
A D
Eighteen wheeler
A D
Eighteen wheeler
A D
Eighteen wheeler---- (hold until final "roll on!")
D |Am/D
Roll On!
Am/D
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