Roll On Eighteen Wheeler

Roll on highway, roll on along
Roll on, Daddy, 'til you get back home
Roll on family, roll on too
Roll on Mama, like I asked you to do
Roll on, eighteen-wheeler, roll on (roll on)

Well, it's Monday morning
He's kissin' Mama goodbye
He's up and gone so long
Daddy drives an eighteen-wheeler
And he's off on a Midwest run

With sad faces together 'round Mama
And asked her when Daddy's comin' home
Daddy drives an eighteen-wheeler
And we sure miss him when he's gone (yeah, they do)
But he calls them every night
And he tells them that he loves them
And it's part of the song, sing it

Roll on highway, roll on along
Roll on, Daddy, 'til you get back home
Roll on family, roll on too
Roll on, Mama, like I asked you to do
Roll on, eighteen-wheeler, roll on (roll on)

Well, it's Wednesday evening
Mama's waitin' by the phone
It rings, but it's not his voice
Seems the highway patrol has found a jackknifed rig
In a snow bank in Illinois

But the driver was missin'
And they're searching for a man
As the word went, everything's gone
And they've checked the houses and the noble hotels
When they heard some music on
And she told them when they found him to tell him
That she loved him
And she hung up the phone singin'

Roll on highway, roll on along
Roll on, Daddy, 'til you get back home
Roll on family, roll on too
Roll on, Mama, like I asked you to do
Roll on, eighteen-wheeler, roll on

Mama and the children will be waiting up all night long
Thinkin' nothing but the words just comin'
By the ringin' of the telephone
But the Man Upstairs was listening
When Mama asked Him to bring Daddy home
And when the call came in
It was Daddy on the other end
Askin' her if she had been singin' the song, singin'

Roll on highway, roll on along
Roll on, Daddy, 'til you get back home
Roll on family, roll on too
Roll on, Mama, like I asked you to do
Roll on eighteen-wheeler, roll on (roll on)

Eighteen-wheeler
Eighteen-wheeler
Eighteen-wheeler
Eighteen-wheeler
Roll on