by Dave Loggins

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 -1-- -1-- -1-- -3-- -1-- -X-- Enjoy, and God bless. Bishop of Nod <dksmith@king2.king.bristol.tn.us>