Key: D major
Verse 1
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D
The rolling hills of Middletown
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A
D
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Roll on, roll on, roll on
I knew him well, an old friend of mine
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D
From down Kentucky way
We had some high good times, my friend
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D
Back in our younger days
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I knew he shouldn't marry
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G
Then later on
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been expecting a child
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and bought himself a home
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D
Where the rolling mills of Middletown
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D
Roll on, roll on, roll on
Well, there's money with
them steel mill boys
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And he made quite a bit
she shopped all day
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Bought everything that fit
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A helper pawn, the B .O .F.,
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three thousand degrees and around
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His wife was just about that hot
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in the bars of old Middletown
the lice didn't know all but
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listen to my song
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While the rolling mills of Middletown
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Roll on, roll on,
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E
C#m
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roll on
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C#m
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One night the foreman on his turn
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said cool down number two
to go on home
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B
as soon as he was through
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A
E
He stopped into a little bar
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to have a good cold beer
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His woman and some day -turned guy
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Oh, I knew him well,
and in his mind
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E
there must have been a storm
Verse 2
A
E
While the rolling mills of Middletown
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B
roll on, roll on, roll on.
E
Verse 3
They say he never spoke a word,
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B
E
just turned and walked away.
Verse 4
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B
what took place that fateful day.
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Some say they saw him
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at Furnace Number One
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would seem just barely warm
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E
did he do something wrong?
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While the rolling mills of Middletown
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B
Roll on, roll on, roll on!
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