E A
R1: Roll On highway, Roll On a-long.
E A
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
E A
Roll on fam'ly, Roll On crew.
E
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
F#m B E
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
E A E A
A
1. Well it's Monday mornin', he's kissin' mama goodbye.
C#m
He's up and gone with the sun.
A
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
E
and he's off on a midwest run.
And three sad faces gather 'round mama.
C#m
They ask her when daddy's comin' home.
A
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
E
and they sure miss him when he's gone.
A Asm F#7
Ah, but he calls 'em ev'ry night and tells 'em
B
that he loves them.
He taught 'em this song to sing:
R1: Roll On highway...
F F B
B F
2. Well it's Wednesday evening.
Mama's waitin' by the phone.
Dm
It rings but it's not his voice.
B
Seems the high-way patrol has found a jack-knifed rig
F
in a snowbank in Illinois.
But the driver was missin',
and the search had been abandoned
Dm
'cause the weather had ev'rything stalled.
B
And they had checked all the houses and the local motels;
F
when they had some more news they'd call.
B Am Gm7
And she told them when they found him to tell him
C
that she loved him.
And she hung up the phone singin':
F B
R2: Roll On highway, Roll On a-long.
F B
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
F B
Roll on fam'ly, Roll On crew.
F
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
Gm C Dm
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
Dm Am7
*: Mama and the children will be waiting up all night long,
B
thinkin' nothin' but the worst is comin'
F
with the ring-in' of the telephone.
Dm
Oh, but the Man upstairs was list'nin'
B
when Mama asked him to bring Daddy home.
Gm
And when the call came in, it was Daddy on the other end,
C
askin' her if she had been a-singin' the song, singin':
R2: Roll On highway...
F B
F B
Eighteen whee-ler
F B
Eighteen whee-ler
F B
Eighteen whee-ler
F B
Eighteen whee-ler----(hold until finally "roll on!")
B Fm/B
F
Roll On!
