Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler) [Short Version]

Roll on, highway, roll on along, roll on, Daddy, till you get back home

Roll on, family, roll on, crew, roll on, Mama, like I asked you to do

And roll on, eighteen wheeler, roll on (Roll on)

Well, it's Monday morning, he's kissin' Mama goodbye

He's up and gone with the sun

Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler

And he's off on a midwest run

As three sad faces gather round Mama

They ask her when Daddy's comin' home

Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler

And they sure miss him when he's gone (Yeah, they do)

Ah, but he calls 'em every night and tells 'em that he loves them

He taught 'em this song to sing

Roll on, highway, roll on along, roll on, Daddy, till you get back home

Roll on, family, roll on, crew, roll on, Mama, like I asked you to do

And roll on, eighteen wheeler, roll on (Roll on)

Well, it's Wednesday evenin', Mama's waitin' by the phone

It rings, but it's not his voice

Seems the highway patrol has found a jack-knifed rig

In a snowbank in Illinois

But the driver was missin' and the search had been abandoned

'Cause the weather had everything stalled

And they had checked all the houses and the local motels

When they had some more news, they'd call

And she told 'em 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, till you get back home

Roll on, family, roll on, crew, roll on, Mama, like I asked you to do

And roll on, eighteen wheeler, roll on

Mama and the children will be waiting up all night long

Thinkin' nothin' but the worst is comin'

With the ringin' of the telephone

Oh, but the man upstairs was listenin'

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, till you get back home

Roll on, family, roll on, crew, roll on, Mama, like I asked you to do

And roll on, eighteen wheeler, roll on (Roll on)

Eighteen wheeler, eighteen wheeler

Eighteen wheeler, eighteen wheeler

Roll on