Roll On

Alabama

    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!