Тональность

 
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 
 
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Eighteen wheeler 
 C            F  
Eighteen wheeler 
 C            F  
Eighteen wheeler 
 C            F  
Eighteen wheeler 
 C  
Roll On