Roll On
AlabamaРазное
C
4/4 time
Chorus 1:
E A
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
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
Verse 1:
A
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.
A
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.
Climb 1:
A G#m 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:
(Repeat chorus 1) afterward,
key changes from E to F
F F A#
Verse 2:
A# F
Well it's Wednesday evening.
Mama's waitin' by the phone.
Dm
It rings but it's not his voice.
A#
Seems the highway 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.
A#
And they had checked all the houses and the local motels;
F
when they had some more news they'd call.
Climb 2:
A# 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':
Chorus 2:
F A#
Roll On highway, Roll On along.
F A#
Roll On daddy till you get back home.
F A#
Roll on fam'ly, Roll On crew.
F
Roll On mama like I asked you to do.
Gm E C Dm
And Roll On Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On.
Bridge:
Dm Am7
Mama and the children will be waiting up all night long,
A#
thinkin' nothin' but the worst is comin'
F
with the ringin' of the telephone.
Dm
Oh, but the Man upstairs was list'nin'
A#
when Mama asked him to bring Daddy home.
Gm
And when the call came in, it was Daddy on the other end,
C
Caskin' her if she had been 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 A#
Eighteen wheeler
F A#
Eighteen wheeler
F A#
Eighteen wheeler
F A#
Eighteen wheeler (hold until finally "roll on!")
A# Fm/A#
F
Roll On!