Key: D major
Verse 1
I guess I knew it was
somethin' to do with Dad
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Bm
was after one of them things went by
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G
D
Mama hated diesels so bad
Now I remember hearing those
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D
semis yearin' down
See, Mama and me lived right
in Mama's eye
When she'd catch me
watchin' the road,
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D
Lord, a little bitty piece of her died
Mama hated diesels so bad
I guess I knew it was something
to do with Dad
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D
things went by
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D
Mama hated diesel so bad
As the years passed and I grew older
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D
Naturally, Mama did too
It wasn't too long before she just
quit singing and quit laughing
away from home
I wouldn't get back from school
I guess I was just too busy
havin' some kind of fun
Or else hangin' around the
local truck stop
Talkin' with my buddies
about all the big rigs
it was all the time rollin' in
And all the crazy places we'd never been
Like California
came up to me and
in the highway,
Flagged down one of them
big ol' semis
pocket handkerchief.
and I got a job unloadin' rigs,
and I saved up enough to
get me one of my own.
on my first run to San Francisco.
Well, that was three years ago today,
and I ain't been back
home in all that time
since then, till now.
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D
standing in the graveyard grass,
staring down at the highway
but I could barely understand
But he handed me a faded old photograph,
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D
he said he found it in my mama's hand.
He said, son,
I guess you know that you and this picture
standing in front of a semi -truck,
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Just married, painted on the side
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D
Mama hated diesel so bad
I guess I knew it was
something to do with Dad
Bm
D
G
D
Mama hated diesel so bad
D
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TunerE A D G B E
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