
		Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)

!		4/4 time
!		Chorus 1
		<E>Roll On highway, Roll On a-<A>long.
		<E>Roll On daddy till you get back <A>home.
		<E>Roll on fam'ly, Roll On <A>crew.
		<E>Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
		And <F#m>Roll On Eighteen <B>Wheeler, Roll On. <E>
>		E   |  A |E   | A
!		verse 1
		<A>Well it's Monday mornin', he's kissin' mama goodbye.
		He's up and gone with the <C#m>sun.
		<A>Daddy 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#m>home.
		<A>Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler,
		and they sure miss him when he's <E>gone.
		Climb 1:
		Ah, but he <A>calls 'em ev'ry <G#m>night and <F#7>tells 'em
		that he loves<B> them.
		He taught 'em this song to sing:

!		(repeat chorus 1) afterward, key changes from E to F
>		F   |F Bb

!		verse 2
		<Bb>Well it's <F>Wednesday evening.
		Mama's waitin' by the phone.
		It rings but it's not his <Dm>voice.
		Seems the high-<Bb>way 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 <Dm>stalled.
		And they had <Bb>checked all the houses and the local motels;
		when they had some more news they'd call.<F>
		Climb 2:
		And she told <Bb>them when they <Am>found him to tell <Gm7>him
		that she loved<C> him.
		And she hung up the phone singin':
!		Chorus 2:
		<F>Roll On highway, Roll On a-<Bb>long.
		<F>Roll On daddy till you get back <Bb>home.
		<F>Roll on fam'ly, Roll On <Bb>crew.
		<F>Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
		And <Gm>Roll On Eighteen <C>Wheeler, Roll On. <Dm>
!		Bridge:
		<Dm>Mama and the children will be <Am7>waiting up all night long,
		thinkin' <Bb>nothin' but the worst is comin'
		with the ring-<F>in' of the telephone.
		Oh, but the <Dm>Man upstairs was list'nin'
		when Mama <Bb>asked him to bring Daddy home.
		And when the <Gm>call came in, it was Daddy on the other end,
		<C>askin' 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 |
		<F>Eighteen whee-<Bb>ler
		<F>Eighteen whee-<Bb>ler
		<F>Eighteen whee-<Bb>ler
		<F>Eighteen whee-<Bb>ler----(hold until finally "roll on!")
>		Bb   |Fm/Bb
		<F>Roll On!
>		Fm/Bb
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!		Enjoy, and God bless.