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Roll on highway, roll on along |
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Roll on daddy till you get back home |
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Roll on family, roll on crew |
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Roll on momma like I asked you to do |
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And roll on eighteen-wheeler roll on, roll on |
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Well it's Monday morning |
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He's kissin' momma goodbye |
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He's up and gone with the sun |
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Daddy drives an eighteen-wheeler |
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And he's off on a Midwest run |
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And three sad faces gather round momma |
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They ask her when daddy's comin' home |
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Daddy drives an eighteen-wheeler |
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And they sure miss him when he's gone |
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Yeah they do |
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But he calls them every night |
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And he tells them that he loves them |
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He taught them this song to sing |
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Roll on highway, roll on along |
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Roll on daddy till you get back home |
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Roll on family, roll on crew |
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Roll on momma like I asked you to do |
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And roll on eighteen-wheeler roll on, roll on |
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Well it's Wednesday evening |
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Mamma's waitin' by the phone |
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It rings but it's not his voice |
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Seems the highway patrol |
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Has found a jackknifed rig |
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In a snow bank in Illinois |
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But the driver was missin' |
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And the search had been abandoned |
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'Cause the weather had everything strong |
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And they had checked all the houses |
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And the local motels |
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When they had some more news they'd call |
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And she told them when they found him |
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To tell him that she loved him |
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And she hung up the phone singin' |
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Roll on highway, roll on along |
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Roll on daddy till you get back home |
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Roll on family, roll on crew |
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Roll on momma like I asked you to do |
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And roll on eighteen-wheeler roll on |
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Momma and the children |
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Will be waiting up all night long |
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Thinkin' nothing but the words just comin' |
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With the ringin' of the telephone |
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Oh, but the Man upstairs was listening |
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When momma asked Him to bring daddy home |
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And when the call came in it was daddy on the other end |
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Askin' her if she had been singin' the song, singin' |
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Roll on highway, roll on along |
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Roll on daddy till you get back home |
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Roll on family, roll on crew |
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Roll on momma like I asked you to do |
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And roll on eighteen-wheeler roll on, roll on |
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Eighteen-wheeler |
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Eighteen-wheeler |
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Eighteen-wheeler |
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Eighteen-wheeler |
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Roll on |