Lyrics Language: Scots Song writer/composer(s): Dave Loggins
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AlabamaRoll On (Eighteen Wheeler) Lyrics:
Roll on highway, roll on along
Roll on daddy till you get back home
Roll on family, roll on crew
Roll on momma like I asked you to do
And roll on eighteen-wheeler roll on, roll on
Well it's Monday morning
He's kissin' momma goodbye
He's up and gone with the sun
Daddy drives an eighteen-wheeler
And he's off on a Midwest run
And three sad faces gather round momma
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
But he calls them every night
And he tells them that he loves them
He taught them 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 momma like I asked you to do
And roll on eighteen-wheeler roll on, roll on
Well it's Wednesday evening
Mamma'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 the search had been abandoned
'Cause the weather had everything strong
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 singin'
Roll on highway, roll on along
Roll on daddy till you get back home
Roll on family, roll on crew
Roll on momma like I asked you to do
And roll on eighteen-wheeler roll on
Momma and the children
Will be waiting up all night long
Thinkin' nothing but the words just comin'
With the ringin' of the telephone
Oh, but the Man upstairs was listening
When momma 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 momma 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
Lyrics: Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler), Alabama [end]
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Alabama Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler) Lyrics Information:
ROLL ON (EIGHTEEN WHEELER)2
Written by: Dave Loggins
Produced by: Harold Shedd & Alabama
Performed by: Alabama 34
First released: 5
Single: January 6, 1984 Length: 3:42
Album: January 6, 1984 Length: 4:21
1 An Eighteen Wheeler is a semi-trailer truck, also known as tractor-trailer
or articulated truck or articulated lorry (UK), consisting of a towing engine
(tractor in the United States), and a semi-trailer (plus possible additional
trailers) that carries the freight. Usually with the cab and the trailer there
are 18 wheels on the rig. Other colloquial terms for semi-trailer truck include
truck and trailer, transfer truck, Diesel, big rig (US), transport (Canada),
artic (UK and Ireland), and juggernaut (UK).
2 "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)," the title track to the band's fifth album,
became the group's 12th straight #1 single on both the U.S. Billboard
Country Singles Chart and the Canadian country music chart. The album
version is approximately 40 seconds longer than the 7-inch single released
for radio airplay and retail sale and can be distinguished by sound effects
of a semitrailer truck (both the engine starting and, at the song's end,
traveling down the highway), Citizens' Band (CB) radio chatter, and
repetition of the refrain at the end of the song.
3 Personnel performing on this recording:
* Randy Owen (lead vocals)
* Teddy Gentry (bass guitar, lead vocals, background vocals)
* Jeff Cook (guitar, fiddle, keyboards, background vocals)
* Mark Herndon (drums, percussion, background vocals)
4 Covered by:
The Hit Company
Dakoda T. Storm
et al.
5 Released on: *
SINGLE(s):
(1)Alabama:
A-side: "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)"
B-side: "Food on the Table"
(a) RCA, 7-Inch, Vinyl, 45rpm Single, #PB-13716, US-1984.
(2)Alabama:
A-side: "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)"
B-side: "When We Make Love"
(a) RCA, 7-Inch, Vinyl, 45rpm Single, #GB-14067, US-1985.
ALBUM(s):
(A)Alabama: Roll On
(1) RCA, 10-Track, Stereo LP, #AHL1-4939, US-1984.
(2) RCA, 10-Track, Stereo CD, #PCD1-4939, US-1984.
(3) RCA, 10-Track, Stereo Cassette, #AHK1-4939, US-1984.
(4) RCA, 10-Track, Stereo CD, Reissue, #PCD1-4939-RE, US-1990.
* The album(s) and record(s) listed here may have different versions
of the song than the one that was transcribed. Also, this list is not
intended to be the complete discography on which this song appears.
6 Transcribed from the track on this album.
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