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Brother Trucker by James Taylor
Brother Trucker
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: G
[Verse 1]
F/G C/G Fmaj7sus2 G7
Breaker number nine, big buddy, put your ears on me now
F/G C/G Fmaj7sus2 G7
This trucker got to have a big line tonight
F/G C/G Fmaj7sus2 G7
Come on sucker, come back Brother Trucker yeah
F/G C/G Fmaj7sus2 G7
I keep seeing double unless I close one eye
[Chorus]
G
And I've got to roll, roll, roll Brother Trucker
C F
Sure nuff ashamed about the shape I'm in
G
Roll, roll, roll Brother Trucker,
Em D C F C
I'm back on my wheels again
G
Roll, roll, roll Brother Trucker,
C F
someone to love the truck driving man now
G Em D G
Roll, roll, roll Brother Trucker, I'm back on my wheels again
[Bridge]
F/C C C(add11) G
I'm a driving fool, I make my own rules
F/C C A7 C/D D7
One part man and one part mule, one part fossil fuel
F/C C C(add11) G
I got the heart of steel, I pull eighteen wheels
F/C C
Mister Nine to Five in his Coupe de Ville
A7
No, never know how it feels
[Chorus]
C/D G
To really roll, roll, roll Brother Trucker
C F
Holding my own just the best as I can
G
Roll, roll, roll Brother Trucker,
Em D C F C
I'm back on my wheels again
G
Roll, roll, roll Brother Trucker,
C F C
outward bound from South Bend
G Em D G
Roll, roll, roll Brother Trucker, I'm back on my wheels again
[Verse 2]
Am7 G/B C G Am7
Moon over New Jersey, big state police here
G/B C7 D
Well, I'm in a hurry, could you let me go in peace?
G Am7 G/B C G
I'm an independent, I don't make no Teamster dough
A7 G/A G6/A A9 Em11
Cause the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. still don't own the road
A7 C F/C
And the only man telling me where to go
C F D
Is the man who owns my load
[Chorus]
G
He says roll, roll, roll Brother Trucker
C F
I say where and you say when
G
Roll, roll, roll, Brother Trucker,
Em D C F C
get back on your wheels again
G C F
Roll, roll, roll, Brother Trucker, turn the goddamn thing around and do it again
G Em D C7
Roll, roll, roll, Brother Trucker, back on my wheels again
[Verse 3]
N.C.
Fat bucket, I'm back on my wheels again
G C Dm7
I am running out of whites
G C Bb
Goddam, dim them headlights now
G C Dm7
Two hours sleep in the last two nights
G C Bb
But that won't be alright tonight
G C Dm7
I am hot as a pistol, dry as a bone
G C Bb
I'm coming on home and I hope my bed's alone
[Chorus]
G C Dm7
Roll, roll, roll, roll, roll
G C Bb
Roll, roll, roll, roll, roll
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