Written by: Dave Loggins
# Debut Chart
1 Jan '84 Country

[CHORUS]
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 kissing 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 coming home
Daddy drives an eighteen wheeler
And they sure miss him when he's gone
Yeah, they do

Ah, but he calls them everynight
And he tells them that he loves them
He taught them this song to sing

[repeat CHORUS]

(Roll on)

Well, it's Wednesday evening
Mama's waiting 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 missing
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 them
When they found him
To tell him that she loved him
And she hung up the phone, singing

[CHORUS]

Momma and the children
Will be waiting up all night long
Thinking nothing but
The worst is coming with
The ringing of the telephone

Oh, 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
Asking her if she had been
Singing the song, singing

[repeat CHORUS 2x]

(Roll on)

Eighteen wheeler
Eighteen wheeler
Eighteen wheeler
Eighteen wheeler, roll on

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