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Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)
4/4 time
Chorus 1
ERoll On highway, Roll On a-Along.
ERoll On daddy till you get back Ahome.
ERoll on fam'ly, Roll On Acrew.
ERoll On mama like I asked you to do.
And F#mRoll On Eighteen BWheeler, Roll On. E
E | A |E | A
verse 1
AWell it's Monday mornin', he's kissin' mama goodbye.
He's up and gone with the C#msun.
ADaddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
and he's off on a midwest run.E
And three sad faces gather 'round mama.
They ask her when daddy's comin' C#mhome.
ADaddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
and they sure miss him when he's Egone.
Climb 1:
Ah, but he Acalls 'em ev'ry G#mnight and F#7tells 'em
that he lovesB them.
He taught 'em this song to sing:
(repeat chorus 1) afterward, key changes from E to F
F |F Bb
verse 2
BbWell it's FWednesday evening.
Mama's waitin' by the phone.
It rings but it's not his Dmvoice.
Seems the high-Bbway patrol has found a jack-knifed rig
in a snowbank in Illinois.F
But the driver was missin',
and the search had been abandoned
'cause the weather had ev'rything Dmstalled.
And they had Bbchecked all the houses and the local motels;
when they had some more news they'd call.F
Climb 2:
And she told Bbthem when they Amfound him to tell Gm7him
that she lovedC him.
And she hung up the phone singin':
Chorus 2:
FRoll On highway, Roll On a-Bblong.
FRoll On daddy till you get back Bbhome.
FRoll on fam'ly, Roll On Bbcrew.
FRoll On mama like I asked you to do.
And GmRoll On Eighteen CWheeler, Roll On. Dm
Bridge:
DmMama and the children will be Am7waiting up all night long,
thinkin' Bbnothin' but the worst is comin'
with the ring-Fin' of the telephone.
Oh, but the DmMan upstairs was list'nin'
when Mama Bbasked him to bring Daddy home.
And when the Gmcall came in, it was Daddy on the other end,
Caskin' 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 | Bb |
FEighteen whee-Bbler
FEighteen whee-Bbler
FEighteen whee-Bbler
FEighteen whee-Bbler----(hold until finally "roll on!")
Bb |Fm/Bb
FRoll On!
Fm/Bb
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Enjoy, and God bless.
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