Midnight hauler
D - F - D - F - G
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D
1. This eighteen-wheeler rolling heavy through the desert tonight,
G
D
I’ve been driving all day, but
I won’t shut her down tonight,
G
I just pulled out of Santa Fe
D
I’m gonna
make it home by the break of day,
D A D
’cause the
midnight hauler is cannon balling her home.
D
2. I got my load strapped sown and my Peter Built is wound up tight,
G
I got my saddle full of diesel
and my belly full of coffee and whites.
D G
I’ve been talking on the radio
keeping track of old Smoky Joe,
D A D
’cause the
midnight hauler is cannon balling her home.
D
3. I got a little woman waiting back in old KC,
G
D
Lord, that sweet good woman
don’t love nobody but old RB.
G
I just called her on the telephone,
D
I said tomorrow night you won’t sleep alone,
D A D
’cause the
midnight hauler is cannon balling her home.
G
+ The highway is deserted
it’s a Saturday night,
D
ain’t nobody but the moon and the trucks in sight,
G
streaking
across the desert like a lightning flash,
A
A7 - Bb - A
I’m going home, baby, got to
get there fast !
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D
4. This eighteen-wheeler rolling heavy through the desert tonight,
G
D
I’ve been driving all day, but
I won’t shut her down tonight,
G
I just pulled out of Santa Fe
D
I’m gonna
make it home by the break of day,
D A D
’cause the
midnight hauler is cannon balling her home.
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(Razzy
Bailey)