Roll On Eighteen Wheeler
recorded by Alabama
written by Dave Loggins
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 G7 C
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler Roll On
F
Well it's Monday morning he's kissing mama goodbye
Am
He's up and gone with the sun
F
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler
C
And he's off on a Midwest run
And three sad faces gather round mama
Am
They ask her when daddy's coming home
F
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler
C
And they sure miss him when he's gone
F Em D7
Ah but he calls 'em every night and tells 'em
G7
That he loves them
He taught 'em this song to sing
Repeat #1
F C
Well it's Wednesday evening
Mama's waiting 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 snow bank in Illinois
But the driver was missing
And the search had been abandoned
Am
Cause the weather had everything stalled
F
And they had checked all the houses and the local motels
C
When they had some more news they'd call
F Em
And she told them when they found him
F G7
To tell him that she loved him
And she hung up the phone singing
Repeat #1
Em
Mama and the children will be waiting up all night long
F
Thinking nothing but the worst is coming
C
With the ringing of the telephone
Am
Oh but the Man upstairs was listening
F
When Mama asked him to bring Daddy home
Dm
And when the call came in it was Daddy on the other end
G7
Asking her if she had been a singing the song singing
Repeat #1
C F
Eighteen wheeler
C F
Eighteen wheeler
C F
Eighteen wheeler
C F
Eighteen wheeler
C
Roll On
