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!