Roll On Eighteen Wheeler - Alabama
[Chorus]
[D]Roll on highway, roll on [G]along, [D]Roll on daddy till you get back [G]home
[D]Roll on family, roll on [G]crew, [D]Roll on momma like I asked you to do, [Em]And roll on eighteen-
[A]wheeler, roll on.
[Verse 1]
Well, it's [D]Monday morning, he's kissin momma goodbye, He's up and gone with the [Bm]sun
[G]Daddy drives an eighteen-wheeler, and he's off on a [D]midwest run
As [D]three sad faces gather round momma, they ask her when daddy's comin [Bm]home
[G]Daddy drives an eighteen-wheeler And they sure miss him when he's [D]gone (yeah they do)
Ah, but he [G]calls them every [D]night, And [Em]he tells them that he loves [A]them, And he taught
them this song to sing.
|[Chorus]
|[D]Roll on highway, roll on [D]along, Roll on daddy till you get [G]back home
|[D]Roll on family, roll on [G]crew, [D]Roll on momma like I asked you to do, [Em]And roll on eighteen-
|[A]wheeler, roll on.
Verse 2:
Well, it's [D]Wednesday evening, momma's waitin by the phone, It rings but it's not his [Bm]voice
Seems the [G]highway patrol has found a jackknifed rig, In a snow bank in [D]Illinois
But the [D]driver was missin And the search had been abandoned. Cause the weather had everything
[Bm]stalled
And they had [G]checked all the houses and the local motels, When they had some more news they'd
[D]call
And she [G]told them when they [D]found him, To [Em]tell him that she loved [A]him, And she hung
up the phone singin.
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[Bm]Momma and the children will be [F]waiting up all night long
Thinkin' [G]nothing but the worst is comin With the [D]ringin of the telephone
Oh, but the [Bm]man upstairs was listening When momma asked [G]him to bring daddy home
And when the [Em]call came in it was daddy on the other end [A]Askin' her if she had been singin the
song, singin.
|[Chorus]
|[D]Roll on highway, roll on [G]along, [D]Roll on daddy till you get back [G]home
|[D]Roll on family, roll on [G]crew, [D]Roll on momma like I asked you to do, [Em]And roll on eighteen-
|[A]wheeler, roll on.
[Outro]
[D]Eighteen-[G]wheeler, [D]Eighteen-[G]wheeler, [D]Eighteen-[G]wheeler, [D]Eighteen-[G]wheeler,
[D]Roll on, Roll on...